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Isabel Labouriau is a Brazilian mathematics professor who teaches at the University of Porto. She studies neurophysiology and the catastrophe theory.

Biography
Isabel Labouriau was born in 1954 in the United States. At the time of her birth, her parents were biologists and, over time, taught her to love math. Her family moved to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil after her parents finished their studies in the United States.

For college, she stayed in Brazil near her family, and also earned her Master of Science degree in Brazil.

She received her PhD in 1983 at the University of Warwick in England, on the Applications of Singularity Theory to Neurobiology. She is a professor in the mathematics department at the University of Porto in Portugal and has been since 1983.

Contributions
Labouriau's work is about catastrophe theory applied to neurophysiology, dynamic systems, symmetries, and reversible maps. Differential equations involve studying how quantities change over time. Neurophysiology involves the parts and functions of the nervous system.

She also studies nerve impulses (nerve cells communicating with each other using electrical signals) and the formation of patterns that can be projected into 3-D and 2-D models.

Teaching
Labouriau is a professor at the University of Porto and has mentored many students during her time there.

Awards and Achievements
Dr. Labouriau has written a variety of research papers and scientific journals. Some titles include "Recognition of symmetries in reversible maps", "Periodic Functions, Lattices and Their Projections", and "Dense heteroclinic tangencies near a Bykov cycle".