Mathematics Faculty Fellows

The Mathematics Faculty Fellowships are intended for research faculty below the rank of professor, or professors who are less than fifteen years past the PhD, and recognize the importance and impact of research support for these colleagues. The Department has selected Isabella Novik to be the latest recipient of this two-year award. Ioana Dumitriu and Paul Hacking, who were selected last year, continue as Faculty Fellows this year.

Isabella Novik received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999 and joined our department in 2001 after a post-doctoral appointment at UC Berkeley. Her thesis won the Haim Nessyahu Prize for excellent PhD thesis in Mathematics in Israel. She also received the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2006. Much of her work is in algebraic and geometric combinatorics, particularly combinatorics of polytopes and simplicial complexes, but the problems she works on usually require methods from commutative algebra and algebraic topology as well as combinatorics. Novik has graduated three PhD students and is currently advising two more. She is one of the four editors-in-chief of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics.