Person
Greenhill, Catherine
FAA
- Occupation
- Mathematician
Summary
Catherine Greenhill is a mathematician noted for her expertise in asymptotic, probabilistic and algorithmic combinatorics, probability, and computer science. Her research focuses on random graphs, combinatorial enumeration and Markov chain. She heads the Combinatorics research group at the University of New South Wales where she of Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Details
"Catherine Greenhill is internationally recognised as a leading expert in asymptotic, probabilistic and algorithmic combinatorics, undertaking research at the interface between combinatorics, probability and theoretical computer science. She tackles difficult, fundamental questions about ubiquitous combinatorial objects, such as graphs and hypergraphs. She has achieved major breakthroughs including establishing the efficiency of a natural algorithm for generating graphs, and finding threshold values for the emergence of certain structures in random hypergraphs. Her highly cited research provides new formulae and algorithms that have found broad applications in many areas, including cryptography and physics." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/catherine-greenhill 25/7/2022]
Chronology
- 1991
- Education - BSc (hons), University of Queensland
- 1992
- Education - MSc, University of Queensland
- 1996
- Education - PhD, University of Oxford
- 1997 - 1999
- Career position - Postdoctoral fellow, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- 2000 - 2002
- Career position - ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne
- 2003 - 2014
- Career position - Lecturer, University of New South Wales
- 2010
- Award - Hall Medal, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
- 2011 - 2013
- Career position - President, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
- 2012 - 2016
- Award - ARC Discovery Grant
- 2014 - 2016
- Career position - Member, Executive Committee, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
- 2014 - 2018
- Career position - Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales
- 2015
- Award - Christopher Heyde Medal (jointly), Australian Academy of Science
- 2018 -
- Career position - Member, Executive Committee, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
- 2019 -
- Career position - Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
- 2019 - 2021
- Award - ARC Discovery Grant
- 2020 -
- Career position - Member, National Committee for Mathematical Sciences, Australian Academy of Science
- 2021 - 2022
- Career position - Chair, Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (WIMSIG), Australian Mathematical Society
- 2022 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
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Published resources
Resources
- Professor Catherine Greenhill, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2022. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-catherine-greenhill. Details
- Catherine Greenhill, 2022. https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~csg/index.html. Details
- 'Catherine Greenhill - Citation at year of election, 2022', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/catherine-greenhill. Details
- Christopher Heyde Medal, Australian Academy of Science, 2022. https://www.science.org.au/christopher-heyde-medal. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 25 July 2022