Jessica Purcell
Jessica A. Shepherd Purcell is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology whose research topics have included hyperbolic Dehn surgery and the Jones polynomial. She is a professor of mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.[1]
Education
[edit | edit source]Purcell credits a high school mathematics teacher, Mr. Pehrson, for her interest in mathematics.[2] She majored in mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Utah, with a minor in computer science. She was a co-winner of the 1998 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman of the Association for Women in Mathematics,[3][4] and graduated summa cum laude in 1998.[1]
After earning a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1999,[1] Purcell completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2004. Her dissertation, Cusp Shapes of Hyperbolic Link Complements and Dehn Filling, was supervised by Steven Kerckhoff.[1][5]
Career
[edit | edit source]After postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin and University of Oxford, Purcell became an assistant professor at Brigham Young University in 2007.[1] She was named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2011,[1][6] and earned tenure at Brigham Young in 2013. After visits to Monash University and at the Institute for Advanced Study as a Von Neumann Fellow, she moved to Monash as an associate professor in 2015, became an ARC Future Fellow in 2017, and was named full professor in 2019.[1]
She chaired the Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Australian Mathematical Society for 2018–2019 and 2019–2020.[7]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]Purcell was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in May 2025.[8] She was elected to the 2026 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[9]
Books
[edit | edit source]Purcell is the author of the book Hyperbolic Knot Theory (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 209, American Mathematical Society, 2020).[10] With David Futer and Efstratia Kalfagianni she is a coauthor of Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2069, Springer, 2012).[11]
References
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External links
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- Jessica Purcell publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Meet Professor Jessica Purcell, Monash University
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- Living people
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Australian mathematicians
- Australian women mathematicians
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
- University of Utah alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- Academic staff of Monash University
- Sloan Research Fellows
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society