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Ursula Porod

PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Biography

Ursula Porod received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. She held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. She taught at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College before joining the Northwestern faculty in 2009.

Porod’s research is on random walks on compact Lie groups. She held a Fulbright Fellowship in 1985-1987 and a Miller Research Fellowship at UC Berkeley in 1994-1996. Porod is the recipient of a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award in 2013.