why did you have to mention the birth year?
Maggie Miller, born around 1993, still finds surprises in four-dimensional knots.
She earned a bachelor's at UT Austin and a 2020 Princeton PhD under David Gabai. Now assistant professor at UT, she studies knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds.
With collaborators she resolved a 1982 Livingston question by constructing Seifert surfaces that stay non-isotopic in the 4-ball. Her thesis advanced a 35-year Casson-Gordon problem on fibered ribbon knots.
Her honors include the 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, Forbes 30 Under 30, plus 2025 Sloan and Packard fellowships. She collects twisty puzzles and plays ukulele.
The simplest 4D questions, she shows, can still reshape topology.