John Boyd Etnyre

John Boyd Etnyre is an American mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his research fields include contact geometry, symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Texas, Austin under the supervision of Robert Gompf. Etnyre was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University from 1997 to 2001.

In 2013, Etnyre was in the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. He received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant award in 2003, and in 2015-2016, he was a Simons Fellow in Mathematics. Etnyre serves as a Principal Editor for the journal of Algebraic & Geometric Topology.