Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی ; born May 1977) is an Iranian mathematician, Professor of Mathematics (since September 1, 2008) at Stanford University. Her research interests include Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry
Awards & honours
In 2013 AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics. “Presented every two years by the American Mathematical Society, the Satter Prize recognizes an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the preceding six years. The prize was awarded on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.”
She gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of “Topology and Dynamical Systems & ODE
Remarkable people with Iranian roots 