Irene Sciriha

Irene Sciriha Aquilina is a Maltese mathematician specializing in spectral graph theory and chemical graph theory.

[3] Sciriha studied mathematics at the University of Malta, earning bachelor's and master's degrees[3] as the only woman studying mathematics or physics there at that time.

Her dissertation, On some aspects of graph spectra, was jointly supervised by Anthony Hilton and Stanley Fiorini.

[1] Sciriha is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.

[3] One of her students, chemist Martha Borg, won the Turner Prize at the University of Sheffield for a doctoral dissertation co-advised by Sciriha and Patrick W.