Megan Kerr

Megan Kerr is the Katharine and Claudine Malone '63 Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College, where she focuses on global Riemannian geometry and the interplay between curvature constraints and symmetry groups. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Wolfgang Ziller. Her research explores homogeneous and low-cohomogeneity spaces, emphasizing existence questions in geometric structures.

She has held visiting positions at Brown University and the University of Arizona, and was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow. Her teaching spans calculus, linear algebra, real analysis, differential geometry, topology, and knot theory. She is dedicated to advancing women in mathematics, co-organizing initiatives like Sonya Kovalevsky Day. Her work often intersects Lie group theory, geometric analysis, and topology, with recent collaborations expanding into topological methods in geometry.

Her research has taken her globally, including to Australia, Germany, and Mexico. Beyond academia, she enjoys running and maintaining an active lifestyle with her family and a faculty exercise group.