Thomas Koberda

Thomas Koberda is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD in 2012 at Harvard University, under the supervision of Curtis T. McMullen. He held an NSF Graduate Fellowship while at Harvard and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University, where he was a Gibbs Assistant Professor from 2012-2015. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia in 2015, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019, and to Full Professor in 2023. He was named a Sloan Foundation Fellow in 2017, and the same year was awarded the Kamil Duszenko Prize for research in geometric group theory. He was named a College Fellow in 2022, and in 2024 was named a Simons Fellow in mathematics. While at UVa, he has been a PI or co-PI on numerous federal grants. His research lies in the area of geometric group theory, with connections to surface topology, dynamics of group actions on manifolds, and mathematical logic. He has authored or co-authored over 50 research papers and two books. During his time at UVa, he has mentored and advised a large number of undergraduate, master's and PhD students, and has been involved with several undergraduate educational and research initiatives in the USA and in Vietnam.