Vera Serganova

Vera Vladimirovna Serganova (Russian: Вера Владимировна Серганова) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley whose research concerns superalgebras and their representations.

Serganova earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from Saint Petersburg State University under the joint supervision of Dimitry Leites and Arkady L'vovich Onishchik. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2014.

The Gelfand–Serganova theorem gives a geometric characterization of Coxeter matroids; it was published by Serganova and Israel Gelfand in 1987 as part of their research originating the concept of a Coxeter matroid.