Nathan Michael Dunfield (born 1975) is an American mathematician, specializing in Topology.
Dunfield did his undergraduate studies at Oregon State University, obtaining a B.S.
For his graduate studies, he went to the University of Chicago, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1999, with a thesis on Cyclic Surgery, Degrees of Maps of Character Curves, and Volume Rigidity for Hyperbolic Manifolds written under the supervision of Peter Shalen and Melvin Rothenberg.
[1] Dunfield is an expert in group theory, low-dimensional topology, three-manifolds, and computational aspects of these fields.
Dunfield is an editor for the New York Journal of Mathematics.