Emily Roff
Scholar

Emily Roff

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Flora Philip Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
category theoryalgebraic topologymetric geometrycombinatorics
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Resume (English only)
Research Experience
  • - Organizer of the Scottish Topology Seminar in 2025-2026.
  • - Co-founder of the AGATE Seminar (Applied Geometry, Algebra, and Topology in Edinburgh) with Djordje Mihajlovic, Siddarth Setlur, Darrick Lee, and Sjoerd Beentjes in 2024-2025.
  • - Co-organized the Magnitude 2023 workshop with Yasuhiko Asao, Yu Tajima, and Masahiko Yoshinaga, held in Osaka, Japan, in December 2023.
  • - Co-ran the Category Theory Seminar at Edinburgh with Ruben Van Belle from 2020 to 2023.
Education
  • Held an undergraduate degree from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Background
  • Research interests include numerical and homological invariants of metric spaces and graphs, as well as enriched category theory and its applications within and beyond pure mathematics. Currently a Flora Philip Research Fellow at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. Previously, she was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Osaka University, Japan.
Miscellany
  • Worked as a welfare rights adviser for Child Poverty Action Group, Drumchapel Money Advice Centre, and WestGAP between 2011 and 2016; also worked as a producer of music and arts projects with Arika and Tracer Trails from 2005 until 2013. Interested in discussing how mathematics can help understand and shape the social world, and has been part of pedagogical experiments aimed at making such conversations possible.
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