Maggie Miller

Maggie Miller is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 2020, under the supervision of David Gabai. Prior to her doctoral studies, she completed her undergraduate degree at UT Austin, graduating with high honors and special honors in mathematics in 2015.

Following her Ph.D., Miller was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then held positions as a Clay Research Fellow and Stanford Science Fellow at Stanford University. In 2023, she returned to UT Austin as a faculty member.

Miller's research focuses on geometric topology in dimensions three to five, with particular interest in knotted surfaces in four-manifolds. She investigates questions related to the construction and obstruction of isotopies and concordances between surfaces, the structures of surface complements, and diagrammatic approaches to understanding surfaces.

Throughout her career, Miller has received several honors, including the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize in 2023 for her work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in four-dimensional manifolds. She was also named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" in Science in 2023. Additionally, she was awarded a Clay Research Fellowship in 2021 and an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2020.

Miller's research focuses on geometric topology in dimensions three to five, with particular interest in knotted surfaces in four-manifolds. She investigates questions related to the construction and obstruction of isotopies and concordances between surfaces, the structures of surface complements, and diagrammatic approaches to understanding surfaces.