Matilde Marcolli

Matilde Marcolli
Marcolli in 2010 at Oberwolfach
Born	(1969-11-30) November 30, 1969 (age 47) Como
Nationality	Italy
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Bonn, Florida State University, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Caltech
Alma mater	University of Milan, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Melvin Rothenberg

Matilde Marcolli is an Italian mathematical physicist.

Marcolli obtained her Laurea in Physics in 1993 summa cum laude from the University of Milan under the supervision of Renzo Piccinini, with a thesis on Classes of self equivalences of fibre bundles. She moved to the USA in 1994, where she obtained a master's degree (1994) and a PhD (1997) in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Melvin Rothenberg, with a thesis on Three dimensional aspects of Seiberg-Witten Gauge Theory. Between 1997 and 2000 she worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a C.L.E. Moore instructor in the Department of Mathematics. Between 2000 and 2010 she held a C3 position (German equivalent of associate professor) at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and held an associate professor position (courtesy) at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She also held an honorary professorship at the University of Bonn. Since 2008 she is full professor of Mathematics in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. She held visiting positions at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, the Mittag-Leffler Institute in , the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.