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Marcus Michelen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University. He previously held a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 2021 to 2025, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution from 2019 to 2021. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019, where he was advised by Robin Pemantle. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering at The Cooper Union in 2014, majoring in General Engineering and minoring in Mathematics. His research interests focus on probability combinatorics with recent work concentrated on random polynomials, random matrices, and sphere packing or Gibbs point processes. His work is supported by the NSF CAREER grant and has been featured in Quanta Magazine, including video and text formats. Moreover, he has contributed layman descriptions of his research to La Recherche, which includes a translation into French.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Teaching and research in the Department of Mathematics, focusing on probability combinatorics.
University of Illinois, Chicago • Chicago, IL
Instruction and research in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science.
University of Illinois, Chicago • Chicago, IL
Conducting research in probability combinatorics and mentoring graduate students.
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