
Fellow
Nussenzveig Lopes Helena Judith
Professor
Current nationality
Brazil
Current country of residence
Brazil
Affiliation / Institution
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Biodata
Nussenzveig Lopes (PhD, 1991, UC Berkeley, USA) is full professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; prior to this she was a professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Her research area is fluid dynamics and partial differential equations. She served as editor-in-chief for the Brazilian Math Society publishing company and on several mathematics journals editorial boards; she is managing editor for Orbita Mathematicae, the new journal of the Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe. She was second vice-president of the Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional. She served on the scientific council of the Centre International des Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées - CIMPA and is currently President of CIMPA. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She was inducted to the Order of Scientific Merit, Comendador class, and she was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. She received the TWAS Award in Mathematics in 2022.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Fluid dynamics, partial differential equations, turbulence
ELECTED
2023
Place of birth
Rio de Janeiro
Country of birth
Brazil
DATE OF BIRTH
29
April
1963
Section
08. Mathematical Sciences
TWAS Awards
TWAS Award in Mathematics (2022)
hvita - short.pdf
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Brazil
Public contact information
EMAIL
hlopes@im.ufrj.br
Website, social media accounts or additional info
https://sites.google.com/view/hlopes
ADDRESS
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Inst Matematica – Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149 – Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-909 – Brazil
List of publications
hvita - List of Publications.pdf
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Last updated on 13/08/2025