20 Facts About Andrea Bertozzi

Andrea Louise Bertozzi was born on 1965 and is an American mathematician.

Andrea Bertozzi earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton University, followed by her PhD from Princeton in 1991; her dissertation was titled Existence, Uniqueness, and a Characterization of Solutions to the Contour Dynamics Equation.

Andrea Bertozzi is a member of the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, as a professor of mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of Applied Mathematics.

Andrea Bertozzi is a member of the California NanoSystems Institute.

Andrea Bertozzi coauthored the book Vorticity and Incompressible Flow, which was published in 2000 and remains one of her most cited works.

Andrea Bertozzi now has over 200 publications on Web of Science, covering a range of topics including fluid dynamics, image processing, social sciences, and cooperative motion.

Andrea Bertozzi's publications include over 100 collaborators in a wide range of disciplines including Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Medicine, Anthropology, Economics, Politics, and Criminology.

Between 2010 and 2020, Andrea Bertozzi has been granted multiple patents related to her research, which center on image inpainting, data fusion mapping estimation, and most recently, on determining fluid reservoir connectivity using nanowire probes.

Andrea Bertozzi has developed numerous novel mathematical theories throughout her career.

Andrea Bertozzi has worked with Jeffrey Brantingham and other colleagues to apply mathematics to the patterns of urban crime, research which was the cover feature in the March 2,2010 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Andrea Bertozzi spoke about the mathematics of crime at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Since 2017, Andrea Bertozzi has been developing new mathematics related to microfluidic technologies as part of her Simons Math + X investigator program joint with UCLA's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the California NanoSystems Institute.

Andrea Bertozzi has published academic works regarding the 2020 pandemic, the most significant of which is an article on the difficulties of forecasting the spread of COVID-19.

Andrea Bertozzi has continued making contributions to the scientific community throughout the pandemic, including a talk on epidemic modeling and a study on the increase in domestic violence reports during stay-at-home restrictions.

Andrea Bertozzi is the older sister of the chemist and Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi.

Andrea Bertozzi's father, William Bertozzi, was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1995, Andrea Bertozzi received a research fellowship from the Sloan Foundation.

Andrea Bertozzi was awarded the 2009 Association for Women in Mathematics-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, and was elected a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellow in 2010.

In June 2020, it was announced that Andrea Bertozzi was invited to give the Noether Lecture at the 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings.

Andrea Bertozzi came to a mutual decision with the sponsors of the event to cancel the lecture.