Maggie Miller is a mathematician and an assistant professor in the mathematics department at the University of Texas at Austin. She was also a former Visiting Clay Fellow, and Stanford Science Fellow at

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in the Mathematics Department. Her primary research area is low-dimensional topology.

Professional career

Miller earned her PhD in mathematics from Princeton University, where she was advised by mathematician David Gabai and wrote her dissertation on extending fibrations of

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s to ribbon disk complements. Prior to graduate school, she completed her undergraduate studies at University of Texas at Austin. After completing her doctoral degree, Miller worked as an

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Postdoctoral Fellow from 2020 to 2021 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later as a Visiting Clay Fellow and Stanford Science Fellow, she spent time at Stanford University from 2021 to 2023. Miller is currently a tenure track professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Awards and honors

Miller was awarded a 2021 Clay Research Fellowship by the

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for her work to expand topological research of

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s. Her contributions were described by MIT as "important...to long-standing problems in low-dimensional topology." Clay Research Fellowships are awarded to recent PhD-holders who are selected for their research accomplishments and potential as leaders in mathematics research. In her previous position at Stanford, she was a Stanford Science Fellow. Fellowships are awarded to early career scientists who have demonstrated scientific achievement and advancement, as well as a desire to collaborate with a diverse scholarly community. Prior to her appointment at Stanford, Miller was awarded a National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoc Research Fellowship while at MIT in the Department of Mathematics. She also has a record of accomplishment during her graduate studies, having been awarded the Princeton Mathematics Graduate Teaching Award in 2018 and the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship in 2019. She received the 2023

Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics is an annual award of the Breakthrough Prize series announced in 2013. It is funded by Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg and others. The annual award comes with a cash gift of $3 million. The Breakthrough Prize ...

, one of the Breakthrough Prizes, for "work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in 4-dimensional manifolds.", and she was named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 – Science for 2023.

Selected publications

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References

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