Julia Elizabeth Bergner is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology,

homotopy theory In mathematics, homotopy theory is a systematic study of situations in which maps can come with homotopies between them. It originated as a topic in algebraic topology but nowadays is studied as an independent discipline. Besides algebraic topolog ...

, and higher category theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia.

Education and career

Bergner graduated from Gonzaga University in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in 2005. Her dissertation, ''Three Models for the Homotopy Theory of Homotopy Theories'', was supervised by

William Gerard Dwyer William Gerard Dwyer (born 1947) is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology and group theory. For many years he was a professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the William J. Hank Family Professor Emeritus. Li ...

. After postdoctoral research at

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...

, she joined the mathematics faculty at the University of California, Riverside in 2008. She moved from there to the University of Virginia in 2016.

Selected publications

Bergner is the author of the book ''The homotopy theory of'' (,1)''-categories'' (London Mathematical Society Student Texts 90, Cambridge University Press, 2018). Her other publications include: * * *

Recognition

In 2018, the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

gave Bergner the

Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize is an annual prize in mathematics, awarded by the Association for Women in Mathematics to honor outstanding research by a female mathematician who has recently earned tenure. The prize funds the winner to spend a ...

for her research on algebraic -theory.

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