John Boyd Etnyre is an American mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology, [1] and his research fields include contact geometry, symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Texas, Austin under the supervision of Robert Gompf. [2] Etnyre was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University from 1997-2001. [3] He was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania prior to joining the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. [3]
In 2013, Etnyre was in the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [4] He received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant award in 2003, [5] and in 2015-2016 he was a Simons Fellow in Mathematics. [6] Etnyre serves as a Principal Editor for the journal of Algebraic & Geometric Topology. [7]
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