What is Melanie Wood?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Melanie Wood | workplaces = [[Stanford University]]<br />[[University of Wisconsin]]<br /> [[University of California, Berkeley]]<br />[[Harvard University]] | known_for = | doctoral_students = | thesis_year = 2009 | thesis_title = Moduli spaces for rings and ideals | doctoral_advisor = [[Manjul Bhargava]] | alma_mater = [[Duke University]]<br />[[University of Cambridge]], [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]]<br />[[Princeton University]] | fields = [[Mathematics]] | image = Melanie Wood.jpg | nationality = [[United States|American]] | death_place = | death_date = | birth_place = [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1981}} | caption = Melanie Wood in 2007 | image_size = 225px | awards = [[Morgan Prize]] (2004)<br> [[NSF CAREER Award]] (2017)<br> [[AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory]] (2018) }} '''Melanie Matchett Wood''' (born 1981) is an [[Americans|American]] mathematician from [[Harvard University]]. She was the first woman to qualify for the U.S. [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] Team.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Melanie Wood|url=http://people.math.harvard.edu/~mmwood/|access-date=2021-03-30|website=people.math.harvard.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Melanie Wood|url=https://www.wndrwmn.com/melanie-wood|access-date=2021-03-30|website=Wonder Women|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219090247/https://www.wndrwmn.com/melanie-wood|url-status=dead}}</ref> She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 at [[Princeton University]], and is now Professor of Mathematics at [[Harvard University]]. After her PhD she was Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at [[UC Berkeley]] and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the [[University of Wisconsin]]. She spent two years as Szegö Assistant Professor at [[Stanford University]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Melanie}} [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:1981 births]] [[Cate