Eric Rowell

I am a professor in the Texas A&M mathematics department and a 2018 Texas A&M Presidental Imact Fellow.  During the 2019-2020 academic year I was a Simons Fellow, visiting UC Berkeley and MSRI.  My research is on the mathematical foundations of topological phases of matter, the subject of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.  Bruillard, Ng, Wang and I received the Alexanderson Award in 2019.  I was a consultant for Microsoft Research Station Q from 2015-2021), and was a Special Visiting Professor at BICMR, Peking University March 2018-March 2021. Previously, I was a VIGRE postdoc at Indiana University. I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from UC San Diego in 2003, under the direction of Hans Wenzl.