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Tara Brendle is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow. Her main research interests involve the interplay of algebra and topology, focusing on various groups such as the automorphism group of surfaces and fundamental objects in geometric combinatorial group theory. She studies low-dimensional topology and algebraic geometry, with particular emphasis on mapping class groups of surfaces and their relations to important classes of groups, including braid groups and Coxeter groups. Brendle’s research addresses the contributions of automorphism groups of free groups in determining the structures of 3- and 4-manifolds, exploring constructions such as Heegaard splittings and Lefschetz fibrations. Her work has significant implications in understanding complex algebraic structures and their topological aspects.