Ben Y. Wormleighton (pronouns: he/him)

I am a Lecturer of Applied Mathematics in the McKelvey School of Engineering 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.

My education research centers on formative pedagogy and assessment methods. I've also started to dabble in genre theory. My domain research interests mostly lie in pure and applied geometry, topology, and category theory.

I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Osage, Missouri, and Illini people from which they were unjustly removed.