Ryan Stees

Ryan Stees is a postdoctoral instructor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin, working with Maggie Miller. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2023 under the guidance of Kent Orr. Prior to his graduate studies, in 2016 he completed undergraduate degrees in mathematics and music composition at James Madison University, graduating at the top of his class and with honors in mathematics. Before joining UT Austin in 2026, Stees was a Whyburn Research Associate and Lecturer at The University of Virginia, working with Slava Krushkal.

Stees' research lies in three- and four-dimensional geometric topology, with a focus on concordance of knots, links, and surfaces, and homology cobordism of manifolds.