Malena Español, an assistant professor of mathematics at Arizona State University, has been awarded the 2024 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics by the Mathematical Association of America. This honor recognizes her exceptional scholarship and teaching influence in higher education institutions across the United States and Argentina.
Dr. Español has been a faculty member in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University since 2019. Before this role, she spent seven years as an associate professor in both the mathematics and mechanical engineering departments at the University of Akron in Ohio. She has also held teaching positions at the California Institute of Technology, Tufts University in Massachusetts, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina.
As a scholar, Dr. Español focuses on applied and computational mathematics. Her current research explores the intersection of numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, optimization, calculus of variations, and machine learning.
Dr. Español graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires with a major in applied mathematics. She also earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Tufts University.
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