Born on April 2, 1954 in Ferrara, Italy.

POSITIONS HELD:
November 1, 1990 - present: Full Professor of Algebra at the University of Ferrara.
April 13, 1987 - October 31, 1990: Full Professor of Algebra at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of L'Aquila.
November 1, 1981 - April 12, 1987: Full Researcher of Algebra at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Ferrara.
January 22, 1980 - October 31, 1981: Grant of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) at the Istituto di Matematica of the University of Ferrara.
September 21, 1978 - January 21, 1980: Grant of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) at the Department of Mathematics of the Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.).
November 1, 1977 - August 31, 1978: Assistant Professor of Geometry at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Ferrara.
November 16, 1976 - October 31, 1977: Assistant Professor of Algebra at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Ferrara.
October 1, 1976 - November 15, 1976: grant of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) at the Istituto di Matematica of the University of Ferrara.

MAIN RESEARCH FIELDS:
HOPF ALGEBRAS and MONOIDAL CATEGORIES (1994- present), 48 papers.
GRADED MODULES (1986-present), 14 papers.
MORITA DUALITY, DISCRETE LINEAR COMPACT MODULES, JACOBSON'S CONJECTURE (1980-2002), 8 papers.
EQUIVALENCES - TILTING MODULES (1986-1993), 4 papers.
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY (1980-1985), 2 papers.
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA (1976-1980), 4 papers.
TOPOLOGICAL MODULES and DUALITIES (1976-present), 10 papers.
OTHER TOPICS (1976-present): 2 papers.

She delivered scientific Talks and Communications in Argentina, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary,Israel,Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, U.S.A.

CURRENT RESEARCH THEMES:monads, dual quasi-bialgebras, bialgebras with a projection, bialgebras of type one, braided bialgebras, Hochschild cohomology, formally smooth and separable (co)-algebras, Hopf algebroids, separable functors, monoidal categories.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
Coorganizer of "New Trends in Hopf Algebras and Monoidal Categories" Turin, 6-9 September, 2022 online and onsite.
Coorganizer of of the International Conference on Noncommutative Rings and Geometry in honour of Freddy Van Oystaeyen , held in Almería, Spain, September 18-22, 2007.
Coorganizer of the Ferrara Algebra Workshop , Ferrara, June 16-19, 2004.
Coorganizer of the Algebra Conference for the 60th Birthday of Adalberto Orsatti held in Padova, June 19-21, 1997.
Organizer of the III Workshop on : Quantum groups, enveloping algebras and representation theory , Ferrara, 18-20 Maggio 1995.
Coorganizer of the 1994 International Conference on Abelian Groups and Modules held in Padova, June 23 - July 1, 1994.
Claudia Menini is a member of the Unione Matematica Italiana and of the American Mathematical Society. She is also a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Ferrara (socio aggregato della Classe di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche, Chimiche, Naturali).

Communications and main talks: 62.
Attended meetings: 76.

She is an editor of Annali dell'Universitá di Ferrara, Sezione VII - Scienze Matematiche, Springer.
She is editor of Abelian Groups and Modules, Proceedings of the Padova conference, Padova, Italy, June 23-July 1, 1994 , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / London , 19
Her book Abstract Algebra, A comprehensive Treatment , written jointly with F. Van Oystaeyen, was published by Marcel Dekker in the series Pure and Applied Mathematics , in 2004.

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