Adriana Salerno

Adriana Julia Salerno Domínguez (born 1979) is a Venezuelan-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Bates College, and a program director at the National Science Foundation.

[2] Salerno was born in Caracas in 1979,[3] and earned a licenciatura in mathematics from Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) in 2001, advised by Pedro Berrizbeitia.

[4] She completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2009 at the University of Texas at Austin, with the dissertation Hypergeometric Functions in Arithmetic Geometry supervised by Fernando Rodríguez-Villegas.

[1][6] After serving as department chair, she took a leave from Bates College beginning in 2021 to become a program officer for the National Science Foundation,[7] where she is a program director for algebra and number theory.

[9] Salerno is a 2023 recipient of one of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.