Karen Vogtmann

Karen Vogtmann is Professor at University of Warwick and Goldwin Smith Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Cornell University. As a mathematician, she is known for introducing new topological and geometric models for the study of infinite discrete groups and has had a particularly strong influence on the modern approach to automorphism groups of free groups. Vogtmann has served as Vice President of the American Mathematical Society and as chair of its Board of Trustees. She was awarded the Polya Prize of the London Mathematical Society and the Humboldt Forschungspreis. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley.