Emily Riehl | |
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 Emily Riehl in 2014 | |
| Born | Thousand Oaks, California, US |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Algebraic model structures (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. Peter May |
Emily Riehl is an Americanmathematician who has contributed tohigher category theory andhomotopy theory. Much of her work, including her PhD thesis,[1] concernsmodel structures and more recently the foundations ofinfinity-categories.[2][3] She is the author of two textbooks[4][5] and serves on the editorial boards of three journals.[6]
Riehl grew up inBloomington-Normal, Illinois.[7]As a high school student atUniversity High School in Normal in 2002, she won third place in the nationalIntel Science Talent Search for a project in mathematics entitled "On the Properties of Tits Graphs".[8]
Riehl attendedHarvard University as an undergraduate; withBenedict Gross as a mentor, she wrote a senior thesis onlocal class field theory. She also headed the schoolrugby team (in which she played as ascrum-half) and played viola in the Harvard–Radcliffe Orchestra.[9] After Harvard, she completedpart III of the Maths Tripos at Cambridge.[4] She defended her doctoral dissertation,Algebraic model structures, at theUniversity of Chicago in 2011, supervised byJ. Peter May.[10]
Between 2011 and 2015, Riehl held a position at Harvard University as a Benjamin Peirce Postdoctoral Fellow. Since 2015, she has been employed atJohns Hopkins University, where she became anassociate professor in 2019. She became a full professor in 2022, and was appointed to JHU'sKelly Miller professorship of mathematics in July 2024.[11]
In addition, she teaches onedX and has hosted videos forNumberphile.[12][13] Along with Benedict Gross and Joe Harris, she developed a Harvard course on edX titled "Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up".[14]
In January 2020, Riehl received the JHU President's Frontier Award, a $250,000 award that "supports individuals at Johns Hopkins who are breaking new ground and poised to become leaders in their field". She is the sixth JHU faculty member to receive the award.[15]
Riehl was awarded the 2021 AWMJoan & Joseph Birman Research Prize "for her deep and foundational work in category theory and homotopy theory."[16][17] She is the fourth winner of this prize. She was named a Fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to research, exposition, and communication in higher category theory".[18] In 2022 she was awarded aSimons Fellowship.[19]
Riehl is a host of the n-Category Café, a blog on subjects related to category theory in mathematics, physics, and philosophy.[20] She was a board member of the LGBT mathematical associationSpectra.[21]
In addition to her mathematical work, Riehl has competed on theUnited States women's national Australian rules football team at theAustralian Football International Cup,[2][22] and was vice captain of the team at the 2017 cup.[23]
She playsviola,guitar, and formerly playedbass guitar in the band Unstraight.[24][25][26]
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