Hélène Barcelo
Canadian-American mathematician
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Barcelo completed her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1988. Her dissertation, On the Action of the Symmetric Group on the Free Lie Algebra and on the Homology and Cohomology of the Partition Lattice, was supervised by Adriano Garsia.
She joined the Arizona State faculty after postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. She retired from Arizona State, becoming a professor emerita there, and became deputy director at MSRI in 2008.
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Recognition
From 2012-2014, Barcelo served as a Council Member at Large for the American Mathematical Society. She was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society, to the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

