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Arizona State University’s Malena Español Recognized for Outstanding Teaching in Mathematics

Malena Español, assistant professor of mathematics at Arizona State University, has received the 2024 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America. She was honored for her outstanding scholarship and teaching influence at higher education institutions in the United States and Argentina.

Dr. Español joined the faulty in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University in 2019. Prior to her current role, she served as an associate professor in the department of mathematics and the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Akron in Ohio for seven years. She previously held teaching positions with the California Institute of Technology, Tufts University in Massachusetts, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina.

As a scholar, Dr. Español’s academic interests are in the areas of applied and computational mathematics. Her current research centers around the intersection of numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, optimization, calculus of variations, and machine learning.

Dr. Español is a graduate of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she majored in applied mathematics. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in mathematics from Tufts University.

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