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.