Pauline Mellon


Pauline E. Mellon is an Irish mathematician who works as an associate professor of mathematics at University College Dublin. Her research specialties include functional analysis, the theory of Banach spaces, and the symmetries of manifolds. In 2019 she became president of the Irish Mathematical Society.
Mellon was born in Avoca, County Wicklow. She did her undergraduate studies at University College Dublin, and performed research both at the University of Tübingen and at University College Dublin as part of her graduate studies. Her 1990 dissertation, Symmetric Banach Manifolds, was supervised by Seán Dineen. She taught at Maynooth University before returning to University College Dublin as a lecturer in 1992.