About Me Jeffrey Meier
In 2014, I completed my PhD at The University of Texas at Austin. My thesis had to do with low-dimensional topology and knot theory and was supervised by Cameron McA. Gordon. Since then, I have held positions at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana (2014-2017); the Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, in Bonn, Germany (Fall 2016); and the University of Georgia, in Athens, Georgia (2017 - 2019).
Before going to Texas, I completed my Masters degree at The University of Nevada at Reno. It was there that I had my first exposure to the captivating world of topology, and I completed my Masters thesis under the direction of Stanislav Jabuka.
In addition to majoring in math at California State University, Long Beach, I also majored in Spanish and minored in chemistry. During 2005-2006, my wife (Sarah) and I lived in Puntarenas, Costa Rica and San Sebastián, Spain. Since then, we have traveled to over 20 countries together, and I have studied German, Basque, French, and Hungarian to varying degrees.
Sarah and I have two sons, Evan and Elliott, and a dog, Alai.