Prof. Dr. Myfanwy Evans

Myfanwy Evans is a Mathematician and Physicist who works on the role of geometry and topology in soft materials. She is the Professor for Applied Geometry and Topology in the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Potsdam.

She studied Mathematics and completed her PhD at the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis, titled »Three-dimensional entanglement: knots, knits and nets«, explored the use of hyperbolic geometry in constructing and characterising entangled networks and filamentous structures. From 2015 until 2020, she lead an Emmy Noether Research Group at TU Berlin on the topic »Geometry and Topology of Entangled Soft Matter«.

She is interested in building interdisciplinary connections to Mathematics within »Matters of Activity«, in particular around the theme of activity through three-dimensional geometric motifs.