Heather Harrington
Heather Harrington | |
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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 |
Heather A. Harrington (born 1984)
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]
References
- ^ a b Birth date from Harrington's profile as a member of the UMass Amherst 2005–06 Women's Rowing Roster
- ^ Algebraic Systems Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, retrieved November 13, 2018
- ^ MPI-CBG Research page Heather Harrington, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, retrieved November 2, 2023
- ^ Student named Goldwater Scholar, UMass Amherst News & Media Relations, April 14, 2005, retrieved November 13, 2018
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), January 2018, retrieved November 13, 2018
- ^ Heather Harrington at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Bedrock, Ella (December 9, 2016), Fellow Dr Heather Harrington Awarded Royal Society Research Fellowship, St Cross College, Oxford
- ^ "The EDGE Foundation". The EDGE program. January 4, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
- ^ "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65 (9): 1122, October 2018
- ^ Adams Prize, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, retrieved February 28, 2019
- ^ "Applied mathematics: algebraic systems biology and topological data analysis". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. The Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
- ^ "Professor Heather Harrington awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020". St John's College. October 19, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2022.