Heather A. Harrington (born 1984)[1] is an applied mathematician interested in applied algebra and geometry, dynamical systems, chemical reaction network theory, topological data analysis, and systems biology.
[2] In 2023, she became a director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, where she is also leading the interinstitutional Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD)[3] together with partners from the Technical University Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.
[1] As an applied mathematics student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst she won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship,[4] and graduated summa cum laude from in 2006.
Her dissertation, Mathematical models of cellular decisions, was jointly supervised by Jaroslav Stark and Dorothy Buck.
[7] In 2017, she became an associate professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford.