Maria Gordina

Maria (Masha) Gordina (born January 13, 1968) is a Russian-American mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut, a Humboldt Research Fellow, the 2009–2010 winner of the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and a Simons Fellow. Her research is at the interface between stochastic analysis, differential geometry, and functional analysis, including the study of heat kernels on infinite-dimensional groups.

Gordina is the daughter of the mathematician Mikhail (Misha) Gordin and a software engineer. She earned a diploma in 1990 from Leningrad State University, and became an assistant professor at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. She completed her doctorate in 1998 from Cornell University; her dissertation, Holomorphic functions and the heat kernel measure on an infinite dimensional complex orthogonal group, was supervised by Leonard Gross. After postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego, she joined the University of Connecticut faculty in 2003.