Liliana María Forzani is an Argentine applied mathematician and statistician,[1] a researcher for the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), a professor at the National University of the Littoral in Santa Fe, Argentina, and the first woman president of the Mathematical Union of Latin America and Caribbean [es] (UMALCA).
[2] Forzani studied applied mathematics at the National University of the Littoral, earning a degree in 1988.
She has two doctorates,[2] the first in mathematics in 1993 from the National University of San Luis, supervised by Hugo Aimar.
It was supervised by R. Dennis Cook at the University of Minnesota.
[4] She is a 2008 recipient of the L'Oreal-UNESCO-Conicet prize for Women in science,[5] and the French-Argentine "Scientists Who Count" Award.