Karin Melnick

Karin Melnick (born 1977) is an American mathematician and Professor at the University of Luxembourg. She specializes in differential geometry and was awarded the 2020–2021 Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars by the American Mathematical Society. In addition, she is a leader in research in Lorentzian geometry and has done substantial work on the Lorentzian Lichnerowicz conjecture.

Education Melnick received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2006, where she also earned her Master of Science in Mathematics in 2000, while working under the guidance of doctoral advisor Benson Farb. Her dissertation research focused on compact Lorentz manifolds with local symmetry.

Honors Melnick was awarded the 2020–2021 Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars by the American Mathematical Society for her research on differential-geometric aspects of rigidity.

Melnick has previously been awarded an NSF CAREER Grant (2013), an AMS Centennial Fellowship (2012–2013), and a Junior Research Fellowship from the Erwin Schrödinger Institute (2009).