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Maggie Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2020, under the supervision of David Gabai. Before her doctoral studies, she completed her undergraduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin, graduating with high honors in Mathematics in 2015. Post-Ph.D., Miller was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has also held positions as a Clay Research Fellow and a Stanford Science Fellow at Stanford University. In 2023, she returned to UT Austin as a faculty member. Miller's research is focused on geometric topology, specifically in dimensions five, with a particular interest in knotted surfaces and four-manifolds. Her investigations include questions related to the construction obstructions, isotopies, and concordances of surfaces, as well as diagrammatic approaches to understanding these surfaces. Throughout her career, she has received several prestigious honors, including the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize in 2023 for her work on fibered ribbon knots in four-dimensional manifolds. She was also named to Forbes' '30 Under 30' in Science in 2023, and was awarded the Clay Research Fellowship in 2021 and the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2020.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Conducted research in geometric topology.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Engaged in research on knotted surfaces.
The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Teaching and research in mathematics.
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