Residence Mexico DF Occupation Mathematician | Nationality Mexican | |
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Full Name Isabel Alicia Hubard Known for Studies of symmetries of combinatorial objects Awards L'Oréal-UNESCO-AMC Fellowship in the area of Exact Sciences, 2012Kovalevskaia Fund Prize, 2010 Website www.fciencias.UNAM.mx/directorio/33480 | ||
Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera is a Mexican mathematician in the Institute of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
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Early life and education
As a child, Isabel Alicia Hubbard wanted to be a bullfighter. She has said of her family, "My mother is an engineer and my father an accountant. My brother wanted to become a mathematician and my sister a physicist. I never thought that I would like math. I simply found it easy and fun, but nothing more. However, my mathematics teacher in junior high and high school, Óscar Chávez, inspired me."
Hubard Escalera began her studies in the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, where in 2001, she graduated in Mathematics with a baccalaureate Thesis titled Polyhedra colored with cyclic orders. It was written in the Institute of Mathematics of the UNAM, where she carried out investigations related to the combinatorial properties of discrete geometrical objects. Her undergraduate advisor was Javier Bracho Carpizo.
In 2008, she earned a Ph.D. from York University of Canada, with a dissertation titled From geometry to groups and back: the study of highly symmetric polytopes.
Career
Hubard Escalera investigates the study of symmetries of combinatorial objects.
She was awarded the Kovalevskaia Fund Prize in 2010.
In 2012 she was the first Mexican mathematician to receive the L´Oréal-UNESCO-AMC Fellowship in the area of Exact Sciences for her work, titled Algebra, combinatorics and geometry of abstract two-orbit polytopes. The Fellowship is awarded to "promote the participation of women in science for advanced scientific studies in universities or other recognized Mexican institutions in the areas of exact sciences, natural sciences and engineering and technology."
She was the organiser of the 2015 Mexico City Mathematics Olympiad of the Federal District, an organization that played a prominent role in recent national competitions, achieving the second place medal of the 2015 Olimpiada Nacional de Matemáticas para Alumnos de Primaria y Secundaria competition. She is also a delegate for Mexico City in the Mexican Mathematics Olympiad of the Mexican Mathematics Society.