Mariya Vladimirovna Shcherbina (Ukrainian: Марія Володимирівна Щербина, born December 11, 1958) is a Ukrainian mathematician and mathematical physicist who studies the theory of random matrices.
[1] She is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the 2009 winner of the Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky Prize.
[2] Shcherbina earned a diploma from the National University of Kharkiv in 1981, and then did graduate studies at the Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, earning a candidacy in 1986.
[1] With Leonid Pastur, Shcherbina is the author of Eigenvalue Distribution of Large Random Matrices (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, 2011).
[3] She was an invited speaker on mathematical physics at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.