Education:

  • Ph.D : May 1995, Columbia University, New York
  • M.A : May 1991, Columbia University, New York.
  • M.Sc : January 1990, Fordham University, New York.
  • B.Sc : October 1987, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Greece.


    • Academic Employment:

  • 2008-- \ \ \ \ , Professor, Michigan State University, E.Lansing MI.
  • 2003--2008, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, E.Lansing MI
  • 1998--2003, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, E.Lansing MI
  • 1995--1998, Hill Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ

    • Visiting Positions:

  • June 2007, Max Plank Intitute, Bonn, Germany
  • 2004--2005, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
  • July-August 1999, Max Plank Intitute, Bonn, Germany
  • 1994--1995, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ

    • Reasearch Grants/Awards:

  • 2008-2011, PI for NSF Grant, DMS-0805942
  • June-July 2007, MPIM-Bonn research grant
  • 2005-2009, NSF Focused Researsh Group Grant, DMS-0456155

    • (PI with A. Champanerkar , O. Dasbach , X.-S. Lin, , W. Neumann )
  • 2004-2005, IAS research grant
  • 2003-2007, PI for NSF Grant, DMS-0306995
  • 2001-2004, PI for NSF Grant, DMS-0104000
  • July-August1999, MPIM-Bonn research grant
  • 1999-2001, PI for NSF Grant, DMS-9996227
  • 1996-1997, MSRI Postocdoral Fellowship (declined)
  • 1996--1999, PI for NSF Grant, DMS-9626140
  • 1990--1994, Columbia University Fellowship
  • 1988--1990, Fordham University Fellowship

    • Research Training Grants:

  • 2004-2009, NSF/RTG Grant, DMS-0353717
    (Co-PI with R. Fintushel, T. Parker, J. Wolfson)
  • 2008-2011, NSF/RTG Grant, DMS-0739208
    (Co-PI with R. Fintushel, T. Parker, J. Wolfson)

    Conference Organization:

  • Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Link and 3-Manifold Invariants:
    Joint AMS Meeting, San Francisco, January 2010
  • Around the Volume Conjecture:
    FRG-Conference, Columbia University, March 13-19, 2006
  • A second time around the Volume Conjecture:
    FRG-Conference, LSU, May 30 - June 3, 2007
  • Interactions Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory:
    FRG-Workshop and Conference, Columbia University, June 3rd-June 19th, 2009


    Professional Memberships:

  • 1995- , SigmaXi, Columbia University Chapter
  • Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
  • Member of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)