Eugénie Lee Hunsicker is an American mathematician who works at

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in England as a senior lecturer in pure mathematics and as director of equality and diversity for the school of science. Her research in pure mathematics has concerned topics "at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology"; she has also worked on more applied topics in

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and

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Education and career

Hunsicker grew up in

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, and was inspired to do mathematics in part by a high school teacher who was married to a mathematics professor at the

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. She went to

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, where she was mentored by mathematician Curtis Greene, including two summers of mathematical research with Greene. She also visited the

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as an exchange student, and earned an honorable mention for the 1992 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman, won that year by

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. Hunsicker graduated from Haverford ''

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'' in 1992, and went on to graduate study at the

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, supported in part by a fellowship from the

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. Her 1999 dissertation, ''L(2)-Cohomology and L(2)-Harmonic Forms for Complete Noncompact Kähler and Warped Product Metrics'', was jointly supervised by Melvin G. Rothenberg and Kevin Corlette. She went straight from her doctorate to a faculty position at

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, a

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focused primarily on undergraduate teaching, but five years later found herself missing the research life, and after earning tenure she went on the academic job market again. She applied to Loughborough "almost on a whim" after a honeymoon visit to England, and moved there in 2006.

Film

In 2018, as Chair of the

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Women in Maths Committee, Hunsicker worked with filmmaker Irina Linke to produce a short film on ''Faces of Women in Mathematics''.

Recognition

Hunsicker won the Trevor Evans Award of the

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in 2003 for her work with

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on the mathematics of modular architecture. In 2018, she won the Suffrage Science Award for Mathematics and Computing "for her achievements in science and for her work encouraging others to aim for leadership roles in the sector". She was selected as a Fellow of the

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in the Class of 2021 "''for leadership of the United Kingdom community of women in mathematics; tireless advocacy for women in mathematics everywhere through talks, writing, and the film 'Faces of Women in Mathematics'; and application of mathematical and statistical expertise to research into equity and diversity issues facing the mathematical community''".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunsicker, Eugenie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American mathematicians British mathematicians Haverford College alumni University of Chicago alumni Lawrence University faculty Academics of Loughborough University American expatriates in the United Kingdom Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics 21st-century American women mathematicians