Every year on May 12, International Women in Mathematics Day is celebrated on the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to have been awarded the Fields Medal, the most coveted recognition for this discipline. This year Sapienza, with the Guido Castelnuovo Department of Mathematics, has chosen this date to confer an honorary doctorate on Ingrid Daubechies, a researcher of the highest calibre, winner, among other things, of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Mathematics 2023