Maria Rita Rosaria D'Orsogna (born 1972) is an Italian and American applied mathematician and environmental activist.
She is a professor of mathematics at California State University, Northridge, where her research interests include swarm behaviour, quantitative methods in criminology, and racial disparities in drug overdoses.
[2][3] D'Orsogna earned a laurea in physics from the University of Padua in 1996, focusing on statistical mechanics and mentored by Attilio L. Stella.
Her dissertation, Charge transfer in DNA: the role of thermal fluctuations and of symmetry, was jointly chaired by Joseph Rudnick and Robijn Bruinsma.
She took her present position as a professor in the mathematics department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 2007.