Valeria Barra aims to multiply math lovers around the world by demonstrating the field’s widespread applications, from animating fantastical creatures to informing climate decisions
Assistant professor Valeria Barra (Bryana Quintana / SDSU)
While mathematics is essential to many scientific disciplines, from physics to biology, the subject is notorious for inducing anxiety among students worldwide. Assistant professor Valeria Barra never shared this angst over arithmetic.
With a love for math that extends back as far as she can remember, Barra has used her computational skills to examine the behaviors of unusual liquids, create Pixar animations, fuel the world’s fastest supercomputers and even monitor climate change with NASA. In her current role as an educator at San Diego State University, she hopes to break down barriers to math, particularly for women in the field.
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