Alessandra Carbone


Alessandra Carbone is an Italian mathematician and computer scientist. She is a professor in the computer science department of the Pierre and [Marie Curie University]. Since 2009 she has headed the laboratory of computational and quantitative biology.

Career

She gained her PhD in mathematics in 1993 at the Graduate Center of the [City University of New York], supervised by Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, after which she took up a post doctoral post at the Paris Diderot University until 1995 when she took a position at the Technical University of Vienna until 1996. She has taught computer science at the Paris 12 [Val de Marne University] and the Institut des Hautes [Études Scientifiques]. She is currently a professor at Sorbonne University, previously known as Pierre and Marie Curie University

Recognition

Carbone is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and received the Irène [Joliot-Curie Prize] in 2010.
She is also a recipient in 2012 of the and the Legion of Honour in 2014.