Joining Us: Melissa Zhang
Faculty
Melissa Zhang is a low-dimensional topologist who likes to use algebraic, combinatorial, and categorical methods to solve problems. Her favorite topological objects are knots and surfaces smoothly embedded in 3- and 4-dimensional spaces.
She received her Ph.D. from Boston College under the supervision of Eli Grigsby and David Treumann. She was previously a postdoc at the University of Georgia, SLMath/MSRI, and UC Davis (and is now a super-postdoc, as she never left).
Outside of mathematics, she likes creating music (piano, guitar, singing), arts and crafts (painting, knitting), translational physical activities (hiking, swimming, skating, kayaking), and baking (point at anything at a bakery and she will proudly make a worse version).