Education
Friedlander graduated from the University of London in 1967.
Friedlander graduated from the University of London in 1967.
She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California, the director of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences at University of Southern California, and the editor in chief of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. Her research concerns fluid dynamics and partial differential equations. She earned a master"s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, and completed her doctorate in 1972 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Louis Norberg Howard.
She joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1975, and moved to University of Southern California in 2007.
In 2005, she became the first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. She became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Her husband is another mathematician, Eric Friedlander.
Friedlander was elected as an honorary member of the Moscow Mathematical Society in 1995.