Viveka Erlandsson is a Swedish[1] mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology and geometry, and known in particular for extending the work of Maryam Mirzakhani on counting geodesics on hyperbolic manifolds.
She became a lecturer at Baruch College and Hunter College in the City University of New York system, while pursuing a doctorate in mathematics through the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, which she completed in 2013.
[4] Erlandsson is the coauthor of the book Geodesic Currents and Mirzakhani’s Curve Counting, with Juan Souto, to be published by Springer in 2022.
[3][4] Erlandsson is the 2021 winner of the Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society, given to her "for her outstanding achievements in geometry and topology and her inspirational active role in promoting women mathematicians".
[2][3] She was a 2024 recipient of the Whitehead Prize, "for her outstanding work on curve counting on surfaces" and for her "extraordinary rigidity theorem for bounce sequences associated to billiard tables".