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Melanie Wood was born on 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an American mathematician. Discover Melanie Wood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?
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Melanie Wood Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Melanie Wood worth at the age of 43 years old? Melanie Wood’s income source is mostly from being a successful mathematician. She is from United States. We have estimated Melanie Wood's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Melanie Matchett Wood (born 1981 ) is an American mathematician at Harvard University who was the first woman to qualify for the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team.
In 2002, she received the Alice T. Schafer Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics.
In 2003, Wood graduated from Duke University where she won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Fulbright fellowship, and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a Putnam Fellow in 2002.
During the 2003–2004 year she studied at Cambridge University.
While a high school student at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, Wood (then aged 16) became the first, and until 2004 the only female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad.
Wood was also a cheerleader and student newspaper editor at her school.
In 2004, she won the Morgan Prize for work in two topics, Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, making her the first woman to win this award.
She was also named the Deputy Leader of the U.S. team that finished second overall at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad.
She completed her PhD in 2009 at Princeton University (under Manjul Bhargava) and is currently Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, after being Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and spending 2 years as Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
She is a number theorist; more specifically, her research centers on arithmetic statistics, with excursions into related questions in arithmetic geometry and probability theory.
Wood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Sherry Eggers and Archie Wood, both middle school teachers.
Her father, a mathematics teacher, died of cancer when Wood was six weeks old.
In 2012, she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
In 2017, she received an NSF CAREER Award.
In 2018, she received the AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory from the Association for Women in Mathematics.
From 2019 - 2021, Wood was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large.
In 2021, she received the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award.
In 2022, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
