Professor Julie Bergner

Julie Bergner is a mathematician working in the area of homotopy theory. She received her PhD at the University of Notre Dame, had a postdoctoral position at Kansas State University, and was a faculty member at University of California Riverside before joining the University of Virginia in 2016, where she is now a Professor.

Her research is primarily in the interaction between homotopy theory and higher categorical structures, often giving comparisons between mathematical objects that have different descriptions but encode the same essential structure. Some of her work has connections with representation theory, and more recently, algebraic K-theory. While in Cambridge, she will be participating in the program “Equivariant Homotopy Theory in Context” at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Julie has advised a number of PhD students, and has been active in the Women in Topology network, which facilitates the success of women in homotopy theory, particularly via collaborative workshops that connect junior and senior researchers in the field.