Elisenda Grigsby

Julia Elisenda (Eli) Grigsby is an American mathematician who works as a professor at Boston College.[1] Her research concerns low-dimensional topology, including knot theory and category-theoretic knot invariants.[2][3]

Education and career

Grigsby earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1999,[1][2] after earlier forays into biochemistry and physics. After a year working as an operations researcher in Silicon Valley, she returned to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley,[3] and completed her doctorate in 2005 under the joint supervision of Robion Kirby and Peter Ozsváth.[1][2][4]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and joined the Boston College faculty in 2009.[1]

Service

Grigsby belongs to the advisory board of Girls' Angle, a non-profit organization for encouraging girls to participate in mathematics,[1][5] and is responsible for creating a sequence of video lectures by women in mathematics for Girls' Angle.[5]

Recognition

In 2014 she became the inaugural winner of the Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry, given biennially by the Association for Women in Mathematics to an outstanding early-career female researcher in topology and geometry.[2]

References
  1. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-06-07.
  2. J. Elisenda Grigsby wins the inaugural AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry (PDF), Association for Women in Mathematics, May 19, 2014; Eli Grigsby, AWM, retrieved 2019-01-26.
  3. Díaz-Lopez, Alexander (March 2016), "Elisenda Grigsby Interview" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (3): 282–284
  4. Elisenda Grigsby at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Girls' Angle Leadership and About Girls' Angle, retrieved 2017-06-07.
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