Dr. Melissa Huggan

Professor

Biography

Melissa Huggan is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Vancouver Island University. She is also an adjunct professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at the University of Victoria. Huggan held an AARMS postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Allison University from 2021 to 2022 and was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University from 2019 to 2021. She completed her PhD in 2019 at Dalhousie University. Her research interests include combinatorial game theory, graph theory, and pursuit-evasion games. Huggan is passionate about teaching and is actively involved in outreach activities to promote mathematics.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor
2022-01-01 — Present

Vancouver Island University • Nanaimo, BC

Professor in the Department of Mathematics.

Adjunct Professor
2022-01-01 — Present

Memorial University of Newfoundland • St. John's

Adjunct professor.

Adjunct Professor
2022-01-01 — Present

University of Victoria • Victoria

Adjunct professor.

Postdoctoral Fellow
2021-01-01 — 2022-01-01

Mount Allison University • Sackville, NB

Held an AARMS postdoctoral fellowship.

Postdoctoral Fellow
2019-01-01 — 2021-01-01

Toronto Metropolitan University • Toronto, ON

NSERC postdoctoral fellow.