Lisa Piccirillo

Lisa Marie Piccirillo (born 1990 or 1991)[1] is an American mathematician who is the Sid W. Richardson Regents Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

As a child, she had many hobbies, such as riding dressage, being involved in her church's youth group, and participating in drama and band in school.

[5][12] She was a graduate student at the time and spent less than a week working on the knot in her free time to "see what's so hard about this problem" before finding an answer:[11][13] I think the next day, which was a Sunday, I just started trying to run the approach for fun and I worked on it a bit in the evenings just to try to see what's supposed to be hard about this problem.Before the week was out, Piccirillo had an answer.

[5] A few days later, she met with Cameron Gordon, a professor at UT Austin (a senior topologist), and casually mentioned her solution.

"[11] Following the publication of Piccirillo's proof in Annals of Mathematics, she was offered a tenure-track position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set to begin fourteen months after the completion of her doctorate.

[16] Additionally, Lisa was counted as one of "The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age" by UK magazine Prospect in 2020.