Todorov earned her Ph.D. in 1978, at
Brandeis University. Her dissertation, Almost Split Sequences in the Representation Theory of Certain Classes of Artin Algebras, was supervised by
Maurice Auslander.[3]
Todorov is married to mathematician
Kiyoshi Igusa,[4] with whom she is a frequent co-author.[5] The Igusa–Todorov functions[6] and Igusa–Todorov endomorphism algebras[7] are named for their joint work. Todorov is also the namesake of Todorov's theorem on preprojective partitions,[8] and the Gentle–Todorov theorem on
abelian categories.[9]
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