Alicia Dickenstein is Professor Emerita of the University of Buenos Aires and a Senior Researcher of CONICET, the National Research Council of Argentina. She is a Member of the National Academy of Exact and Natural Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina. She was Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union. She is an AMS Fellow and a SIAM Fellow. She holds Honorary Doctorates from UNS and UNL, Argentina, and from KTH, Sweden. She received the  2015 TWAS Prize in Mathematics and a 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO International Award "For Women in Science".

During Alicia's visit to the UK she gave the annual Jack Carr Memorial Lecture at ICMS  as well as speaking at the universities of Oxford and Warwick.