Research

Research Interests

Broadly, I am interested in geometric topology and geometric group theory. Some specific groups I study are mapping class groups of surfaces and the related handlebody groups, Gardside groups and braid groups, and non-positively curved groups in varying flavors (e.g. hierarchically hyperbolic groups, relatively hyperbolic groups, acylindrically hyperbolic groups, stable subgroups, etc.). 

Photo of Marissa presenting at the 2020 Topology Students Workshop (via Zoom)

Presenting at the (online) 2020 Topology Student Workshop (photo courtesy of Dan Margalit)