Irena Swanson is an American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra.
Swanson is originally from the former Yugoslavia, in what is now Slovenia,[2][3] and was attracted to mathematics from a very young age.
Her dissertation, Tight Closure, Joint Reductions, And Mixed Multiplicities, was supervised by Craig Huneke.
[1] With her advisor, Craig Huneke, Swanson is the author of the book Integral Closure of Ideals, Rings, and Modules (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
[2] Swanson was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to commutative algebra, exposition, service to the profession and mentoring".