Esmeralda Herminia Mallada Invernizzi (born 10 January 1937 – 12 September 2023) was a Uruguayan astronomer and professor who, for her contributions to that scientific discipline, had been honored with the designation of her name to an asteroid.

[1] At the University of the Republic's Faculty of Engineering [es], she was a colleague of Gladys Vergara, who helped her prepare for the Secondary Education Council [es] cosmography professorship competition.

She also taught at the university's Faculty of Sciences, where she graduated with a licentiate in astronomy.

On 16 October 1952, at the invitation of Pochintesta, she was one of the founders of the Association of Amateur Astronomers (AAA) in Uruguay,[2] and in 2015 was made its honorary president.

[3] In 2015, the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union designated an asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter with her name, 16277 Mallada.