Bahar Acu

 

BRIEF CV

 

Employment:

 

• 2021 - present: The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Mathematics, Member
• 2020 - present: ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics, Researcher and Lecturer
• 2017 - 2020: Northwestern University, Boas Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• 2016 - 2017 (en route to PhD): Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, Lecturer

 

Education:

 

• 2011 - 2017: PhD in Mathematics, Advisor: Ko Honda (UCLA), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• 2015 - 2017: Graduate Researcher, University of California Los Angeles
• 2008 - 2011: M.S. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
• 2004 - 2008: B.S. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

Supervision and Mentoring:

 

• Joël Beimler, MSc Thesis, ETH Zürich, Summer 2021
• Marisa Bühler, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2021
• Lukas Bertsch, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2021
• Elizabeth Cameron, Undergraduate Summer Research, Northwestern University, Summer 2019
• Jasmine Hunt (Math Alliance Mentee), Kansas State University, Current PhD placement: Ohio State, 2020 - 2021
• Alicia Becerra Romero (Math Alliance Mentee), UC Riverside, Current PhD placement: UC Irvine, 2019 - 2020

 

Selected Honors and Grants:

 

• Summer Collaborators Fellowship, IAS, Princeton
• Leibniz Fellowship, Oberwolfach Institute for Mathematics, Germany
• Edward and Dolores Blum Research Prize, USC
• Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Category of Mathematics, USC
• Theodore E. Harris Teaching Prize in Mathematics, USC
• NSF - AWM Travel Grant
• AWM - Advance Grant for Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
• Women in Science and Engineering Travel Grant, USC