Biography:Laura Monk
Laura Monk is a French mathematician whose research in spectral geometry, on the expansion and spectral properties of random hyperbolic surfaces, continues the work of Maryam Mirzakhani.[1] She works in England at the University of Bristol as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and proleptic (tenure-track) lecturer.[2][3]
Education and career
After preparatory studies at the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève, Monk received bachelor's degrees in both mathematics and physics at Paris-Sud University in 2015, passed her agrégation in mathematics in 2017, and received a master's degree with honors in 2018, also including study at the École Normale Supérieure.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 2021 at the University of Strasbourg, with the dissertation Geometry and spectrum of typical hyperbolic surfaces supervised by Nalini Anantharaman.[3][4]
She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, working there with Ursula Hamenstädt, from 2021 to 2022. She joined the University of Bristol in 2022 as a research associate of Jens Marklof. She became a research fellow and proleptic lecturer in 2024.[3]
Recognition
As a doctoral student, Monk was named a French Young Talent in the 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.[3][5] She was a 2024 recipient of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, given to her "for advancing our understanding of random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus".[6]
The Royal Society awarded Monk a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2024.[7]
References
- ↑ Howlett, Joseph (3 March 2025), "Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life", Quanta, https://www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/, retrieved 2025-08-07
- ↑ "Dr Laura Monk", Our people (University of Bristol), https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Laura-Monk-c2a6be2b-fe32-4b66-b0dd-43b31d645ecb/, retrieved 2025-08-07
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Curriculum vitae, https://lauramonk.github.io/cv.pdf, retrieved 2025-08-07
- ↑ "Laura Monk", Theses.fr, https://theses.fr/264754247, retrieved 2025-08-07
- ↑ French Young Talents, Fondation L'Oréal, https://www.fondationloreal.com/our-programs-women-science-national-and-regional-young-talents-programs/french-young-talents, retrieved 2025-08-07
- ↑ "Laura Monk", Mathematics Breakthrough Prize Laureates, https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3957, retrieved 2025-08-07
- ↑ "Outstanding researchers awarded early career fellowships worth more than £75 million", News from the Royal Society (Royal Society), 24 October 2024, https://royalsociety.org/news/2024/10/early-career-researchers-grants-announced/, retrieved 2025-08-07
External links
- Home page
- Laura Monk publications indexed by Google Scholar
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