Maria Elena Schonbek is an Argentine-American mathematician at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
[1][2] Schonbek received a bachelor's degree from the University of Buenos Aires.
Her dissertation, Boundary Value Problems for the Fitzhugh–Nagumo Equations, was supervised by Jeffrey Rauch.
[3] Schonbek joined the University of California, Santa Cruz faculty in 1986.
[5] In 2012, Schonbek became a member of the inaugural class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.