# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pauline-van-den-driessche
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:53:13.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pauline-van-den-driessche"
name: "Pauline van den Driessche"
slug: "pauline-van-den-driessche"
description: "Pauline van den Driessche is a British and Canadian applied mathematician who is a professor emerita in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria, where she has also held an affiliation in the department of computer science. Her research interests include mathematical biology, matrix analysis, and stability theory."
tagline: "British and Canadian applied mathematician"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump