Jonathan Kujawa

I am a member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University. Previously, I was a faculty member in the University of Oklahoma Department of Mathematics. Before that, I was an NSF postdoctoral fellow and Franklin Fellow at the University of Georgia with Dan Nakano as my sponsoring scientist. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto for six months. Going back even further, I was a graduate student at the University of Oregon. I received my Ph.D. from Oregon in 2003 under the guidance of Jon Brundan. Finally, a long, long time ago, I received my B.A. in mathematics from Gustavus Adolphus College.

Broadly speaking, my research is in the area of representation theory. The general idea is to study the mathematics of symmetry. As you might imagine, this field involves many areas of mathematics as well as physics, biology, art… All of which makes it very interesting!