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Marilda Antonia de Oliveira Sotomayor

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA)  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

Undergraduated in Mathematics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ (1967), master degree in Mathematics at the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics IMPA (1972), PhD in Mathematics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro PUC-Rio and the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics IMPA (1981) and Privat Dozen in Mathematical Economics (1999) at the University of São Paulo USP. She was Professor of PUC-Rio (Department of Mathematics), of UFRJ (Economics Department) and of USP/SP. She was Visiting Researcher at Pittsburgh University (United States), Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (France), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), Ecole Polytechnique (France), University of California at Berkeley (United States) and Brown University (United States). Nowadays, she is Professor of Getulio Vargas Foundation - RJ. She is Fellow of the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the Game Theory Society and EconomicTheory Fellow. She received the following awards:TWAS 2016 (THE WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES), Lanchester Prize 1990 (Mathematical of Operation Research), Haralambos Simeonides 2001(ANPEC), Mario Henrique Simonsen 2006 (RBE/FGV), Adriano Romariz Duarte 1996 (SBE) and Medal of Scientific Merit from the Order of the Brazilian Economists, 2013. She is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She was Associated Editor of Econometrica and Associated Editor of the International Journal of Game Theory. She is charter member of the Game Theory Society and was elected for a second time as a board member of the Econometric Society. She organized scientifically the First Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society at USP in 2002, the 17th International Conference on Game Theory and Economic Applications at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, in 2006, the Gales Feast: a day in honor of the 85th birthday of David Gale; satellite of the 18th International Conference on Game Theory and Economic Applications in 2007; the Second Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society, the first São Paulo School of Advanced Science in Game Theory of FAPESP, 2010, FEA/USP/SP (this workshop honored John Nash and had the participation of the Nobel Prizes in Economics: Aumann, Myerson, Maskin, Paul Milgrom and Nash), the International Workshop of the Game Theory Society, - 2nd São Paulo School of Advanced Science in Game Theory of FAPESP, 2014, with the presence of the Nobel Prizes in Economics: Aumann, Maskin, Nash and Roth. She was Guest Editor of the International Journal of Game Theory for the edition: A collection of papers dedicated to David Gale on the occasion of his 85th birthday, published in 2008. She was Editor of the session of the Game Theory of the Complexity and Systems Sciences, collection of 18 volumes published by Springer in 2009. She has worked as a member of the Program Committee of the World Congress of the Econometric Society in 1990 (Barcelona) and in 2000 (Seatle); 3rd World Congress on Game Theory in 2008, in Northwestern University, 4th World Congress on Game Theory, Istambul, 2012 and in several Latin American Meetings of the Econ. Society. She wrote the book Two-sided Matching. A study in game-theoretic modeling and analysis, with Roth. She received the Lanchester Prize of 1990 and in 2010 it was organized the congress "Roth and Sotomayor: Twenty years after na Duke University, North Caroline, to celebrate de 20 years of publication of the book.She has experience in the area of Mathematical Economics, with emphasis on game theory, in the following topics: two-sided matching markets, market design, cooperative games. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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