Curtis T. McMullen
Curtis Tracy McMullen is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller theory.
Biography
McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his PhD in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan. He held post-doctoral positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, after which he was on the faculty at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining Harvard in 1997.McMullen was chair of the Harvard Mathematics Department from 2017 to 2020. His doctoral student Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the Fields Medal.