Employment:
2022 - present: The Claremont Colleges - Pitzer College, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
2023 - present: The Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Extended Faculty and Avery Fellow
2021 - 2022: The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Mathematics, Member
IAS Host: Helmut Hofer
2020 - 2022: ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics, Researcher and Lecturer
ETH Hosts: Ana Cannas and Paul Biran
2017 - 2020: Northwestern University, Boas Assistant Professor of Mathematics
NU Mentor: Emmy Murphy (of Princeton)
Fall 2019: Oberwolfach Institute for Mathematics, Leibniz Fellow
2016 - 2017 (en route to PhD): Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, Lecturer
Education:
2011 - 2017: PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: Ko Honda (UCLA), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
(en route) M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2015 - 2017: Graduate PhD Researcher, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2008 - 2011: M.Sc. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2004 - 2008: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Supervision and Mentoring:
Metehan Aksay, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2023
Title: A Topological Analysis of Contact Manifolds and Their Symplectic Fillings
Joël Beimler, M.Sc. Thesis, ETH Zürich, Summer 2021
Marisa Bühler, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2021
Lukas Bertsch, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2021
Title: Chern Classes: A Topological and Geometric Approach
Elizabeth Cameron, Undergraduate Summer Research, Northwestern University, Summer 2019
Title: Topological Invariants of Surfaces
Jasmine Hunt (Math Alliance Mentee), Kansas State University, Current PhD placement: Ohio State, 2020 - 2021
Alicia Becerra Romero (Math Alliance Mentee), UC Riverside, Current PhD placement: UC Irvine, 2019 - 2020
Selected Honors and Grants:
BLAIS Tandem Fellowship
Avery Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University
Project NeXT Fellowship, Mathematical Association of America
Summer Collaborators Fellowship, IAS, Princeton
Leibniz Fellowship, Oberwolfach Institute for Mathematics, Germany
Edward and Dolores Blum Research Prize, USC
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Category of Mathematics, USC
Theodore E. Harris Teaching Prize in Mathematics, USC
NSF - AWM Travel Grant
AWM - Advance Grant for Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
Women in Science and Engineering Travel Grant, USC