Education and career
Wolf writes that her childhood ambition was to become a carpenter,and that she became attracted to science only after subscribing to Scientific American as a teenager. [4]
She read mathematics at Clare College,Cambridge,completing the Mathematical Tripos in 2003. [3] She remained at Cambridge for graduate study,and completed her PhD there in 2008. Her dissertation,Arithmetic Structure in Sets of Integers,was supervised by Timothy Gowers. [3] [5] She was also mentored in her doctoral studies by Ben Green,whom she met when he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge from 2001 to 2005. [6]
Since earning her doctorate she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley,California,Triennial assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey,Hadamard associate professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris (earning a habilitation at the University of Paris-Sud in 2012),and Heilbronn reader in combinatorics and number theory at the University of Bristol. [3] She returned to Cambridge as a university lecturer in 2018, [3] [7] and was a Fellow of Clare College from 2018 to 2022. [3]
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