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Jeffrey Meier

I am an Associate Professor at Western Washington University.

Previously, I was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow at Indiana University and a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate at the University of Georgia. I earned my PhD in Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Cameron McA. Gordon in 2014. I was a visiting researcher at the Hausdorff Institute for Mathmetics during the fall of 2016 and at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics during the falls of 2019 and 2022.

My research interests include manifold theory and knot theory in dimensions three and four. I study an assortment of low-dimensional objects: trisections of 4-manifolds, bridge trisections of surfaces in 4-manifolds, ribbon disks, doubly slice knots, and knots with Seifert fibered Dehn surgeries. My research is currently supported by the NSF Research in Undergraduate Institutions grant DMS-2405324.