Malgorzata Peszynska received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Augsburg, Germany, and MS and Habilitation from Warsaw University of Technology. She held academic positions at the Polish Academy Of Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology, Purdue University, The University of Texas at Austin, and National Science Foundation of USA. Since 2003 she has been at Oregon State University where she is now a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and 2022-25 Joel Davis Faculty Scholar. Her awards include the 2020 AAAS Honorary Fellow, 2021 SIAM Geosciences Career Prize, 2017 Kosciuszko Foundation College of Eminent Scientists,  and 2009-10 Fulbright Research Fellow.  She believes in “paying it forward” and held leadership and service positions including for SIAM Geosciences (2009-12) and on 7+ editorial boards; she directed 50+ postdocs, doctoral, masters and undergraduate research projects. Her research is in broadly defined applied and computational mathematics, with interdisciplinary applications and collaborations in geosciences (hydrology and oceanography), engineering, and material science.