Emily Riehl is an American mathematician who has contributed to higher category theory and homotopy theory.
Emily Riehl adalah seorang matematikawan Amerika yang telah memberikan kontribusi pada teori kategori tingkat tinggi dan teori homotopi.
Much of her work, including her PhD thesis, concerns model structures and more recently the foundations of infinity-categories.
Sebagian besar karyanya, termasuk disertasi PhD-nya, berkaitan dengan struktur model dan baru-baru ini fondasi kategori infinity.
She is the author of two textbooks and serves on the editorial boards of three journals.
Ia adalah penulis dua buku teks dan menjabat di dewan redaksi tiga jurnal.
Riehl grew up in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
Riehl dibesarkan di Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
As a high school student at University High School in Normal in 2002, she won third place in the national Intel Science Talent Search for a project in mathematics entitled "On the Properties of Tits Graphs".
Sebagai siswa sekolah menengah di University High School di Normal pada tahun 2002, ia meraih tempat ketiga dalam Intel Science Talent Search nasional untuk proyek matematika berjudul "On the Properties of Tits Graphs".
Riehl attended Harvard University as an undergraduate; with Benedict Gross as a mentor, she wrote a senior thesis on local class field theory.
Riehl melanjutkan pendidikan di Universitas Harvard sebagai mahasiswa sarjana; dengan Benedict Gross sebagai mentor, ia menulis tesis senior tentang teori lapangan kelas lokal.
After Harvard, she completed part III of the Maths Tripos at Cambridge.
Setelah itu, ia menyelesaikan bagian III dari Tripos Matematika di Cambridge.
She defended her doctoral dissertation, Algebraic model structures, at the University of Chicago in 2011, supervised by J. Peter May.
Ia mempertahankan disertasi doktornya, Algebraic model structures, di Universitas Chicago pada tahun 2011, yang dibimbing oleh J. Peter May.
Between 2011 and 2015, Riehl held a position at Harvard University as a Benjamin Peirce Postdoctoral Fellow.
Antara 2011 dan 2015, Riehl memegang posisi di Universitas Harvard sebagai Benjamin Peirce Postdoctoral Fellow.
Since 2015, she has been employed at Johns Hopkins University, where she became an associate professor in 2019.
Sejak 2015, ia bekerja di Universitas Johns Hopkins, di mana ia menjadi profesor asosiasi pada tahun 2019.
In addition, she teaches on edX and has hosted videos for Numberphile.
Selain itu, ia mengajar di edX dan telah menjadi pembawa acara video untuk Numberphile.
Along with Benedict Gross and Joe Harris, she developed a Harvard course on edX titled "Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up".
Bersama Benedict Gross dan Joe Harris, ia mengembangkan kursus Harvard di edX berjudul "Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up".
She is the sixth JHU faculty member to receive the award.
Ia adalah anggota fakultas JHU keenam yang menerima penghargaan tersebut.
Riehl was awarded the 2021 AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize "for her deep and foundational work in category theory and homotopy theory."
Riehl dianugerahi Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize di AWM 2021 "untuk karyanya yang mendalam dan mendasar dalam teori kategori dan teori homotopi."