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Pauline E. Mellon
Born
County Wicklow, Ireland
OccupationProfessor
Academic background
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
ThesisSymmetric Banach Manifolds (1990)
Doctoral advisorSeán Dineen
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
Sub-disciplineFunctional analysis
InstitutionsUniversity College Dublin
Websitehttps://people.ucd.ie/pauline.mellon

Pauline E. Mellon is an Irish mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at University College Dublin.[1] Her research specialties include functional analysis, the theory of Banach spaces, and the symmetries of manifolds.[2] From 2019 to 2020 she was president of the Irish Mathematical Society and has been a member of the Royal Irish Academy's Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences committee.[3][1]

Mellon was born in Avoca, County Wicklow.[2] She did her undergraduate studies at University College Dublin, and performed research both at the University of Tübingen and at University College Dublin as part of her graduate studies.[1] Her 1990 dissertation, Symmetric Banach Manifolds, was supervised by Seán Dineen.[4] She taught at St Patrick's College, Maynooth before returning to University College Dublin as a lecturer in 1991.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d "Pauline Mellon", Profiles, University College Dublin, retrieved 8 January 2020
  2. ^ a b "Pauline Mellon", Atlas of Irish mathematicians, retrieved 8 January 2020
  3. ^ Committee of the Society, Irish Mathematical Society, retrieved 8 January 2020
  4. ^ Pauline Mellon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


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