Ben Y. Wormleighton (pronouns: he/him)
I am a Lecturer of Applied Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis.
I received my PhD from the University of California, Berkeley advised by David Eisenbud after which I was a William Chauvenet Postdoctoral Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis. I did my undergraduate and master's degrees in math(s) at the University of Warwick working with Miles Reid.
I'm interested in fostering formative learning spaces & communities to imagine and cultivate practices leading to individual and communal formation. To these ends, I'm a Project NExT Fellow (2024-25) and a Carver Faculty Fellow.
My domain research interests mostly lie in pure and applied geometry and topology. My education research centers on formative pedagogy and assessment methods.
I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Osage, Missouri, and Illini people from which they were unjustly removed.
Feel free to contact me via email benw at wustl.edu or come by my office, Green 2155.