Dorothea Ariette (Dorette) Pronk (born 1968)[1] is a Dutch and Canadian mathematician specializing in category theory and categorical approaches to differentiation.
[4] She became a mathematics student at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, where she earned a master's degree in 1991 and completed her Ph.D. in 1995.
[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Groupoid Representations for Sheaves on Orbifolds, was jointly promoted by Dirk van Dalen and Ieke Moerdijk.
[3] Pronk was the 2023 recipient of the Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
After resisting the call because of her strict background,[8] she has been participating in messianic dance through All Nations Christian Reformed Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 2002.