Isabel Hubard Escalera

Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera is a Mexican mathematician in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Early life and education As a child, Isabel Alicia Hubard wanted to be a bullfighter. She has said of her family, "My mother is an engineer and my father an accountant. My brother is a mathematician and my sister a physicist. I never thought that I would like math. I simply found it easy and fun, but nothing more. However, my mathematics teacher in junior high and high school, Óscar Chávez, inspired me."

Hubard Escalera began her studies in the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, where in 2001, she graduated in Mathematics with a baccalaureate thesis titled Polyhedra colored with cyclic orders. It was written in the Institute of Mathematics of the UNAM, where she carried out investigations related to the combinatorial properties of discrete geometrical objects. Her undergraduate advisor was Javier Bracho Carpizo.

Career Hubard Escalera investigates the study of symmetries of combinatorial objects.

In 2012 she was the first Mexican mathematician to receive the L´Oréal-UNESCO-AMC Fellowship in the area of Exact Sciences for her work, titled Algebra, combinatorics and geometry of abstract two-orbit polytopes.

Selected publications