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2021 Clay Research Fellows

Date: 25 January 2021

The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Maggie Miller, Georgios Moschidis, Lisa Piccirillo, and Alexander Smith have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships.

Maggie Miller obtained her PhD in 2020 from Princeton University, where she was advised by David Gabai.  She is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Georgios Moschidis obtained his PhD in 2018 from Princeton University, where he was advised by Mihalis Dafermos. Since then he has been a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lisa Piccirillo obtained her PhD in 2018 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was advised by John Luecke. She held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brandeis University before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a Moore Instructor then Assistant Professor.

Alexander Smith obtained his PhD in 2020 from Harvard University, where he was advised by Noam Elkies and Mark Kisin. He currently holds a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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