Clara Grima

Clara Isabel Grima Ruiz (born 1971) is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Seville, specializing in computational geometry. She is known for her research on scutoids (polyhedron-like shapes that can pack the space between pairs of curved surfaces)[1] and for her popularization of mathematics.

Clara Grima in May 2013

Education and career

Grima was born in 1971 in Coria del Río. She completed her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Seville in 1998, and is a professor of applied mathematics at the same university.[2][3]

Grima also serves as president for the committee on popularization of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.[4]

Books

Grima's books include:

  • Computational Geometry on Surfaces: Performing Computational Geometry on the Cylinder, the Sphere, the Torus, and the Cone (with Alberto Márquez, Kluwer, 2001)[5]
  • Mati y sus mateaventuras: Hasta el infinito y más allá (with Raquel Gu, Espasa, 2013)[6]
  • Las matemáticas vigilan tu salud: Modelos sobre epidemias y vacunas (Mathematics watches your health, with Enrique F. Borja, Next Door Publishers, 2017), on the applications of mathematics in epidemiology and personal health[7]
  • ¡Que las matemáticas te acompañen! (May mathematics be with you, Ariel, 2018) on the importance of mathematics in understanding the world[6][8]
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References
  1. Gómez-Gálvez, Pedro; Vicente-Munuera, Pablo; Tagua, Antonio; Forja, Cristina; Castro, Ana M.; Letrán, Marta; Valencia-Expósito, Andrea; Grima, Clara; Bermúdez-Gallardo, Marina (2018-07-27), "Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia", Nature Communications, 9 (1): 2960, Bibcode:2018NatCo...9.2960G, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05376-1, PMC 6063940, PMID 30054479; Burdick, Alan (30 July 2018), "We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained", The New Yorker
  2. "Clara Grima (biography)", Personal pages of Clara Grima, retrieved 2019-07-31
  3. Trujillo García, Fausto Andrés, "Clara Grima", Primer Encuentro de Mujeres Matemáticas, Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, pp. 10–11
  4. Diez López, Nerea (7 December 2018), Clara Grima en Talent Woman, Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
  5. Reviews of Computational Geometry on Surfaces:
    • Jüttler, Bert (2003), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1878350CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • van Kreveld, M. J. (September 2003), Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, Serie 5, 4 (3): 261, hdl:1874/314077CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • O'Rourke, Joseph (March 2003), SIAM Review, 45 (1): 155–156, JSTOR 25054391CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. García Aller, Marta (20 January 2019), "Clara Grima, la matemática que enseña a dominar el mundo", El Independiente (in Spanish)
  7. Lucio, Cristina G. (9 December 2017), "Las matemáticas te salvan la vida" [Mathematics saves your life], El Mundo
  8. Grima, Clara (20 June 2018), "Que las matemáticas te acompañen", El País (in Spanish)
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