Jana Rodriguez Hertz

In 2016, Rodriguez Hertz was elected a Regional Vice President, Latin America & the Caribbean, of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World for the period of 2016–20.

Since 2011, Rodriguez Hertz has been involved in the Uruguayan educational debate. She has participated in numerous interviews, public events and conferences on the subject. She has developed a critical point of view on the educational budget, PISA tests, teaching career development, and other topics. Her particular point of view made her a benchmark of public opinion on the issues. She has been a columnist in different media, highlighting her participation in 2014 in the "La Tertulia" episode of the program En Perspectiva by Emiliano Cotelo on Radio El Espectador, as well as the "Jana y sus hermanas" and the "Suena Tremendo" episodes on the same radio station. She is also the author of the blog, "¿Y por qué no?".

Rodriguez Hertz studied mathematics at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura of the National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina. She studied one year at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 1994, Rodriguez Hertz has been based in Uruguay. She earned a doctorate from the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1999.

Jana Rodriguez Hertz (née María Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz Frugoni; born 10 February 1977), is an Argentine and Uruguayan mathematician, professor, and researcher.

María Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz Frugoni was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, February 11, 1970. She is the daughter of Mariana Frugoni and Adolfo Rodriguez Hertz. Jana is the oldest of five siblings, one of whom, Federico is also a mathematician.