Jeanette Claire McLeod is a New Zealand mathematician specialising in combinatorics, including the theories of Latin squares and random graphs.
She is a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury, a principal investigator for Te Pūnaha Matatini, a Centre of Research Excellence associated with the University of Auckland,[1] an honorary senior lecturer at the Australian National University,[2] and the president for three terms from 2018 to 2020 of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia.
Her dissertation, Methods in Asymptotic Combinatorics, was supervised by Brendan McKay.
[5][6][7] In 2019, McLeod and fellow Canterbury mathematician Phil Wilson won the Cranwell Medal for Science Communication from the New Zealand Association of Scientists for their work on Maths Craft.
[8] McLeod's advocacy for creative practice within science and research saw her profiled in a Nature careers article in 2021.