Sina Greenwood

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Sina Ruth Greenwood is a New Zealand mathematician whose interests include continuum theory, discrete dynamical systems, inverse limits, set-valued analysis, and Volterra spaces. [1] [2] She is an associate professor of mathematics and Associate Dean Pacific in the faculty of science at the University of Auckland. [1]

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Education and career

Greenwood's parents emigrated from Samoa to Whanganui in New Zealand, shortly before Greenwood was born; they moved from there to Auckland when she was a child. She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Auckland, and after some time in Australia became a secondary school teacher in Auckland. [2]

Returning to the University of Auckland for graduate study in mathematics, she earned a master's degree and then completed her PhD in 1999, under the joint supervision of David Gauld and David W. Mcintyre. Her dissertation was Nonmetrisable Manifolds. [2] [3] [4] She and three other students who finished their doctorates at the same time became the first topologists to earn a doctorate at Auckland. [2]

After postdoctoral research, funded by a New Zealand Science and Technology Post-Doctoral Fellowship, she obtained a permanent position at the University of Auckland as a lecturer in 2004, [2] [5] later becoming an associate professor. [2] Beyond mathematics, her work at the university has also included advocating for the interests of Pasifika and Māori students. [2] [5]

Recognition

Greenwood is a Fellow of the New Zealand Mathematical Society, [6] elected in 2018. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr Sina Ruth Greenwood", University directory, University of Auckland, retrieved 2022-04-07
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gauld, David (December 2019), "Profile: Sina Greenwood" (PDF), NZMS Newsletter (137), New Zealand Mathematical Society: 20–21, retrieved 2022-04-07
  3. ↑ Sina Greenwood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Greenwood, Sina (1999). Nonmetrisable Manifolds (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/697.
  5. 1 2 "New Colleagues", NZMS Newsletter (91), August 2004
  6. ↑ NZMS Accreditation, New Zealand Mathematical Society, retrieved 2022-04-07
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