Education
She earned her bachelor"s and master"s degrees from Princeton University, followed by her Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton in 1991. Her dissertation was titled Existence, Uniqueness, and a Characterization of Solutions to the Contour Dynamics Equation.
Career
Her research interests are in non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics. Prior to joining University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, Bertozzi was an L. East. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago, and then Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Duke University. At the University of Chicago she first began to study the mathematics of thin films.
She spent one year at Argonne National Laboratory as the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar.
She coauthored the book Vorticity and Incompressible Flow, which was published in 2000. Bertozzi also spoke about the mathematics of crime at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
She is the older sister of the chemist Carolyn Bertozzi. Her father, William Bertozzi, was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1995 Bertozzi received a research fellowship from the Sloan Foundation.
She is featured in the book Encyclopedia of World Scientists, by Elizabeth H. Oakes, published in 2007. She was also awarded the 2009 Association for Women in Mathematics-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, and was elected a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellow in 2010. In 2010 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
In 2013 she was named the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity at University of California, Los Los Angeles
Membership
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She is a member of the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, as a Professor of Mathematics and Director of Applied Mathematics.