Irina Mitrea

Irina Mitrea is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Temple University. She is known for her research on partial differential equations as well as for promoting mathematics to schoolgirls.

Mitrea earned a master's degree from the University of Bucharest in 1993, and completed her doctorate in 2000 at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Carlos Kenig and Mikhail Safonov. After temporary positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and Cornell University, she joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 2004, and earned tenure there in 2007. She also taught at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute before moving to Temple. She is the founder of the Girls and Mathematics Program at Temple University, a week-long summer camp in mathematics for middle-school girls.

In 2008, Mitrea won the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics. In 2014, she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to partial differential equations and related fields as well as outreach to women and under-represented minorities at all educational levels."