# Maya Stein

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'''Maya Jakobine Stein''' is a German mathematician working as a professor at the Department of Mathematical Engineering of the [University of Chile](/source/University_of_Chile). She is also the vice director and the academic director of the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile.<ref name=CMM>{{cite web | author = Center for Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de Chile | title = Maya Stein | url = https://www.cmm.uchile.cl/?cmm_people=maya-stein | access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref>

After earning a degree in mathematics from the [University of Hamburg](/source/University_of_Hamburg) in 2002,<ref name=anid>{{cite web|url=https://investigadores.anid.cl/es/public_search/researcher?id=26873|title=Maya Jakobine Stein|work=Portal de Investigador|publisher=Chilean National Agency for Research and Development|access-date=2024-10-06}}</ref> she continued for a doctorate in 2005, supervised by [Reinhard Diestel](/source/Reinhard_Diestel).<ref>{{mathgenealogy|163160|title=Maya Stein}}</ref> She then spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the [University of São Paulo](/source/University_of_S%C3%A3o_Paulo) with [Yoshiharu Kohayakawa](/source/Yoshiharu_Kohayakawa),<ref>{{cite web|author= São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) | title = Problemas finitos e infinitos da teoria dos grafos e hipergrafos | url = https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/50111/problemas-finitos-e-infinitos-da-teoria-dos-grafos-e-hipergrafos/ | access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref> before moving to the University of Chile as an associated researcher in 2008. She obtained an associate professor position in 2016 and was promoted to full professor in 2020.<ref name=anid/>

Stein is known for her research in [combinatorics](/source/combinatorics), in particular in [graph theory](/source/graph_theory), and her interests include [extremal](/source/extremal_graph_theory) and [probabilistic](/source/probabilistic_method) combinatorics, [Ramsey theory](/source/Ramsey_theory), as well as structural and algorithmic graph theory and infinite graphs.<ref>{{cite journal | journal = Imagen de Chile | author = Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini | title = Outstanding Chilean women from the world of mathematics | date = 13 May 2022 | access-date=8 October 2024 | url = https://www.marcachile.cl/outstanding-chilean-women-from-the-world-of-mathematics/}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Marcos Kiwi, Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, Sergio Rajsbaum, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez, Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter, and Alfredo Viola | title = A Perspective on Theoretical Computer Science in Latin America | journal = [Communications of the ACM](/source/Communications_of_the_ACM) | volume = 63 | number = 11 | year = 2020 | pages = 102–107 | doi = 10.1145/3419975 | url = https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-perspective-on-theoretical-computer-science-in-latin-america/}}</ref> She has more than 60 publications in these areas.<ref>{{cite web|author=Maya Stein| title = Personal publication list | url = https://www.dim.uchile.cl/~mstein/publications.html | access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref> She is the vice-chair of the [SIAM](/source/Society_for_Industrial_and_Applied_Mathematics) activity group for discrete mathematics.<ref>{{cite web | author = SIAM | authorlink = Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | title = Discrete mathematics leadership | url = https://www.siam.org/get-involved/connect-with-a-community/activity-groups/discrete-mathematics/leadership/ | access-date = 14 October 2024}}</ref>

== Editorial positions ==

* Managing editor for ''[Innovations in Graph Theory](/source/Innovations_in_Graph_Theory)''<ref>{{cite web | author = Innovations in Graph Theory | title = Editorial Board | url = https://igt.centre-mersenne.org/page/editorial/ | access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref>
* Editor-in-Chief for ''[Electronic Journal of Combinatorics](/source/Electronic_Journal_of_Combinatorics)''<ref>{{cite web | title = Editorial Team | author = Electronic Journal of Combinatorics | url = https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/about/editorialTeam | access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref>
* Associate editor for ''[SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics](/source/SIAM_Journal_on_Discrete_Mathematics)''<ref>{{cite web | author = SIAM | title = SIDMA Editorial Board | url = https://epubs.siam.org/journal/sidma/editorial-board | access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref>
* Associate editor for ''Orbita Mathematicae''<ref>{{cite web | author = Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe | title = Orbita Mathematicae Editorial Board | url = https://msp.org/om/about/journal/editorial.html | access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref>

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