Christine Elaine Soteros is a Canadian

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the

University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S, or USask) is a Universities in Canada, Canadian public university, public research university, founded on March 19, 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatch ...

and was the University's Site Director for the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences from 2015 to 2024. Her research involves the folding and packing behavior of DNA, proteins, and other string-like biomolecules, and the

knot theory In topology, knot theory is the study of knot (mathematics), mathematical knots. While inspired by knots which appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are joined so it cannot be und ...

of random

space curve In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point. This is the definition that ...

s. Soteros graduated from the

University of Windsor The University of Windsor (UWindsor, U of W, or UWin) is a public university, public research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has approximately 17,500 students. The university was incorporated by ...

in 1980. She completed her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 1988. Her dissertation, ''Studies of Metal Hydride Phase Transitions Using the Cluster Variation Method'', was supervised by Carol K. Hall. After postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto, working with Stuart Whittington and

De Witt Sumners De Witt Lee Sumners is an American mathematician, having been the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University. He is known for his research in knot theory, topological fluid dynamics, and their application to DNA. Sumner ...

, she became a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan in 1989.

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