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Marilda Sotomayor graduated in Mathematics in 1967 from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), received her master's degree in Mathematics in 1972 from the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), and completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1981 from the Catholique University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ) and IMPA. She also obtained the Privat Dozen in 1999 from the University of São Paulo/SP (USP/SP). Before joining the University of São Paulo/SP in 1997, she taught at the Catholique University of Rio de Janeiro, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Sotomayor has worked as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at Brown University (USA), Visiting Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh (USA), Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (France), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), Ecole Polytechnique (France), and University of California, Berkeley (USA). At present, she has retired from UFRJ and USP/SP and has a position at the Graduate School of Economics of the Getulio Vargas Foundation-RJ. Her academic distinctions and prizes include the TWAS Prize, 2016, awarded by The World Academy of Sciences; her election for Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2003, for Fellow of the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation in 1993, for Fellow of the Game Theory Society in 2017, and for the Economic Theory Fellow in 2015 (awarded by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory); the Lanchester Prize 1990 (Mathematical of Operation Research), Haralambos Simeonides Prize 2001(ANPEC), Mario Henrique Simonsen Prize 2006 (RBE/FGV), Adriano Romariz Duarte Prize 1996 (SBE); Medal of Honour 2013 (Order of the Economists of Brazil - OEB); Medal of Honour, awarded by the Department of Economics of USP-SP, Brazil: "in recognition of the academic work of Marilda Sotomayor, from 1997 to 2014"; and Medal of Honour, awarded by the Graduate School of Economics of Getulio Vargas Foundation in honor of Marilda Sotomayor: "by her contribution to the Economic Sciences in the developing of the Matching Theory." Dr. Sotomayor has contributed to the scientific community as Charter Member and Council Member of the Game Theory Society; Associate Editor of Econometrica and of the Brazilian Review of Econometrics; council member of the Econometric Society; guest Editor for the International Journal of Game Theory of the issue A collection of papers dedicated to David Gale on the occasion of his 85th birthday, published in 2008; Editor of the session of Game Theory of the Encyclopedia Complexity and Systems Sciences, published by Springer in 2009; and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Game Theory 2005-2018. She has also worked as Member of the Nominating Committee for Officers of the Econometric Society, Nominating Committee for Fellows of the Econometric Society, and as President of the Latin American Standing Committee of the Econometric Society.Dr. Sotomayor's work in the organization of conferences includes the scientific and local organization of three international workshops of the Game Theory Society, held at the University of São Paulo, in 2002, 2010, and 2014, respectively and the scientific organization of the 17th International Conference on Game Theory and Economic Applications and of the Gales Feast: A day in honor of the 85th birthday of David Gale, held at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, in 2006 and 2007, respectively. She has also served as Member of the programme committee of several congresses (Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society, World Congresses of the Econometric Society, the 3rd and 4th World Congress of the Game Theory Society). Her research has been supported in part by grants from the CNPq. She has written the book Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis with Alvin Roth, one of the winners of the Nobel Prize of Economics in 2012; t
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