Catherine Greenhill

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Catherine Greenhill FAA is an Australian mathematician known for her research on random graphs, combinatorial enumeration and Markov chains. [1] She is a professor of mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales, [1] and an editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics . [1] [2]

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Education and career

Greenhill did her undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, and remained there for a master's degree, working with Anne Penfold Street there. [1] She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Peter M. Neumann. Her dissertation was From Multisets to Matrix Groups: Some Algorithms Related to the Exterior Square. [1] [3]

After postdoctoral research with Martin Dyer at the University of Leeds and Nick Wormald at the University of Melbourne, Greenhill joined the University of New South Wales in 2003. [1] She was promoted to associate professor in 2014, becoming the first female mathematician to earn such a promotion at UNSW. [4]

Recognition

Greenhill was the 2010 winner of the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. [5] She was president of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia for 2011–2013. [6] In 2015 the Australian Academy of Science awarded her their Christopher Heyde Medal for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences. [4] She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022. [7]

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  2. Editorial team, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics , retrieved 25 February 2018
  3. Catherine Greenhill at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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