Catherine Greenhill

Catherine Greenhill FAA is an Australian mathematician known for her research on random graphs, combinatorial enumeration and Markov chains.[1] She is a professor of mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales,[1] and an editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.[1][2]

Education and career

Greenhill did her undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, and remained there for a master's degree, working with Anne Penfold Street there.[1] She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Peter M. Neumann. Her dissertation was From Multisets to Matrix Groups: Some Algorithms Related to the Exterior Square.[1][3]

After postdoctoral research with Martin Dyer at the University of Leeds and Nick Wormald at the University of Melbourne, Greenhill joined the University of New South Wales in 2003.[1] She was promoted to associate professor in 2014, becoming the first female mathematician to earn such a promotion at UNSW.[4]

Recognition

Greenhill was the 2010 winner of the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.[5] She was president of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia for 2011–2013.[6] In 2015 the Australian Academy of Science awarded her their Christopher Heyde Medal for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences.[4] She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Catherine Greenhill: Biography, University of New South Wales, retrieved 25 February 2018
  2. ^ Editorial team, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, retrieved 25 February 2018
  3. ^ Catherine Greenhill at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b Catherine Greenhill wins Australian Academy of Science 2015 Christopher Heyde Medal, University of New South Wales, 24 November 2015, retrieved 25 February 2018
  5. ^ ICA Medals, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, retrieved 25 February 2018
  6. ^ CMSA Council, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia, retrieved 11 October 2018
  7. ^ "Academy announces 2022 Fellows for outstanding contributions to science". Australian Academy of Science. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.