She is a professor of mathematics and (since 2013) the director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
[1] She defended her Ph.D. thesis in 1998 under the supervision of Chi-Wang Shu; her dissertation was Convergence to Steady State of Weighted ENO Schemes, Norm Preserving Runge-Kutta Methods and a Modified Conjugate Gradient Method.
[5] Gottlieb's interests lie in the numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics.
[6] She has authored the following books : Gottlieb directs UMass Dartmouth's Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research, which is a research center with over 30 faculty, multiple computational clusters, and an international advisory board.
[11] Gottlieb was named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the Class of 2021 "for exemplary and lasting work in forging an active and positive research environment, proactive outreach, effective mentoring, and promoting the success of women in mathematical and computational sciences".