Irene Sciriha

Irene Sciriha Aquilina is a Maltese mathematician specializing in spectral graph theory and chemical graph theory.[1] A particular topic of her research has been the singular graphs, graphs whose adjacency matrix is a singular matrix, and the nut graphs, singular graphs all of whose nontrivial induced subgraphs are non-singular.[2] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Malta.[3]

Education and career

Sciriha studied mathematics at the University of Malta, earning bachelor's and master's degrees[3] as the only woman studying mathematics or physics there at that time.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Reading in England. Her dissertation, On some aspects of graph spectra, was jointly supervised by Anthony Hilton and Stanley Fiorini.[4]

She began teaching at the University of Malta in 1971.[3] She was convenor of European Women in Mathematics from 2000 to 2001.[1]

Recognition

Sciriha is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.[3] One of her students, chemist Martha Borg, won the Turner Prize at the University of Sheffield for a doctoral dissertation co-advised by Sciriha and Patrick W. Fowler.[5]

References
  1. Irene Sciriha, European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2021-05-27; History, European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2021-05-27
  2. "Woman Scientist of the Month: Irene Sciriha Aquilina", European Platform of Women Scientists, 3 February 2020, retrieved 2021-05-27
  3. "Prof. Irene Sciriha Aquilina", Staff profiles, University of Malta, retrieved 2021-05-27
  4. Irene Sciriha at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Dr Martha Borg awarded the UK Turner Prize for an outstanding thesis", Newspoint, University of Malta, retrieved 2021-05-27; Jones, Becky Catrin (2021), "A promising early career researcher", Think Magazine, University of Malta, vol. 34, pp. 60–63
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