Karma Dajani
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George Washington University (PhD)
Karma Dajani | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | American University of Beirut (BS) George Washington University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Utrecht University |
| Doctoral advisor | E. Arthur Robinson Jr. |
Karma Dajani is a Lebanese-Dutch mathematician whose research interests include ergodic theory, probability theory, and their applications in number theory.[1] She is an associate professor of mathematics at Utrecht University.[2]
Dajani was born in Lebanon,[3] and did her undergraduate studies at the American University of Beirut,[4] initially in medicine but switching after a year to mathematics.[3]
Because of the Lebanese Civil War, she and her family moved to the US,[3] where she earned her Ph.D. in 1989 from George Washington University.[5] Again, she switched topics, beginning in functional analysis and trying graph theory but ending in ergodic theory.[3] Her dissertation, Simultaneous Recurrence of Weighted Cocycles, was supervised by E. Arthur Robinson Jr.,[5] after a previous advisor, Daniel Ullman, shifted his own interests away from ergodic theory.[3] As a student at George Washington University, Dajani was a two-time winner of the university's Taylor Prize in Mathematics.[6]
After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3] She took a faculty position at the University of Alabama[3][4]. After marrying a Dutch mathematician, Cor Kraaikamp, she obtained a visiting position at Delft University of Technology and then joined Utrecht University.[3] She spent 25 years as the only female mathematics professor at Utrecht.[1]
