Ofelia Teresa Alas

Ofelia Teresa Alas (born 4 June 1943) is Brazilian mathematician and professor emeritus at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo. She served as its vice-dean in the years from 1990 to 1994, under Pedro Alberto Morettin's warrant. Alas is a researcher in the fields of topology and set theory. She is notable for being the second Brazilian woman to obtain a PhD in mathematics from a Brazilian institution.

Early life Ofelia Alas was born in São Paulo, Brazil on 4 June 1943,

In 1965, she became the only woman to receive a fellowship to develop activities in Instituto de Pesquisas Matemáticas at USP.

She finished her master's degree in 1967 with the thesis Seis proposições equivalentes ao Teorema de Zermelo and her PhD in 1968, with the thesis Sobre uma Extensão do Conceito de Compacidade e suas Aplicações, both supervised by Edison Farah. She became the second Brazilian woman to earn a mathematical doctoral's title from a Brazilian institution.

In 1990, Ofelia Alas was approved as full professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics and retired in 1994, but continues to contribute as senior. Between 1990 and 1994, she served as vice-dean of IME-USP, working alongside dean Pedro Alberto Morettin. 1970: Topological groups and the generalized continuum hypothesis. 1970: Une proposition équivalente au théorème de Zermelo.

Personal life Alas is a mother of two.