Heather Harrington

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Heather Harrington
Alma mater University of Massachusetts Amherst, Imperial College London
Awards Whitehead Prize, Adams Prize, Philip Leverhulme Prize
Scientific career
Institutions University of Oxford, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Thesis Mathematical models of cellular decisions  (2010)
Doctoral advisor Jaroslav Stark, Dorothy Buck
Website people.maths.ox.ac.uk/harrington/

Heather A. Harrington (born 1984) [1] is an applied mathematician interested in applied algebra and geometry, dynamical systems, chemical reaction network theory, topological data analysis, and systems biology. Since 2020, she is professor of mathematics and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, where she heads the Algebraic Systems Biology group. [2] In 2023, she became a director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, where she is also leading the interinstitutional Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD) [3] together with partners from the Technical University Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

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Education and career

Harrington went to Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts. [1] As an applied mathematics student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst she won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, [4] and graduated summa cum laude from in 2006. [5] She completed her Ph.D. in 2010 at Imperial College London. Her dissertation, Mathematical models of cellular decisions, was jointly supervised by Jaroslav Stark and Dorothy Buck. [5] [6]

After postdoctoral research in theoretical systems biology at Imperial from 2010 to 2013, she joined the Mathematical Institute at Oxford as Hooke Research Fellow and EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, [5] and as Junior Research Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford. [7] In 2017, she became an associate professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford. In 2020, she became professor of mathematics. [5] [7]

She is a board member of the EDGE Foundation (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education). [8]

Recognition

In 2018 Harrington was one of the winners of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society. [9] She was a co-winner of the 2019 Adams Prize of the University of Cambridge, which had the topic 'The Mathematics of Networks'. [10] She was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2020 for advances in analysis of noisy data. [11] [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 Birth date from Harrington's profile as a member of the UMass Amherst 2005–06 Women's Rowing Roster
  2. ↑ Algebraic Systems Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford , retrieved November 13, 2018
  3. ↑ MPI-CBG Research page Heather Harrington, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics , retrieved November 2, 2023
  4. ↑ Student named Goldwater Scholar, UMass Amherst News & Media Relations, April 14, 2005, retrieved November 13, 2018
  5. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), January 2018, retrieved November 13, 2018
  6. ↑ Heather Harrington at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. 1 2 Bedrock, Ella (December 9, 2016), Fellow Dr Heather Harrington Awarded Royal Society Research Fellowship, St Cross College, Oxford
  8. ↑ "The EDGE Foundation". The EDGE program. January 4, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65 (9): 1122, October 2018
  10. ↑ Adams Prize, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge , retrieved February 28, 2019
  11. ↑ "Applied mathematics: algebraic systems biology and topological data analysis". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. The Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Professor Heather Harrington awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020". St John's College. October 19, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
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