John Etnyre

John Boyd Etnyre is an American mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology,[1] 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.[2] Etnyre was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University from 1997-2001.[3] He was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania prior to joining the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[3]

In 2013, Etnyre was in the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[4] He received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant award in 2003,[5] and in 2015-2016 he was a Simons Fellow in Mathematics.[6] Etnyre serves as a Principal Editor for the journal of Algebraic & Geometric Topology.[7]