Amanda Burcroff
Research
Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory
Bio
Amanda Burcroff joined MIT as a School of Science Dean's and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in 2025, hosted by Alex Postnikov.
During the summer of 2025, she was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis, hosted by Eugene Gorsky. She received her PhD in 2025 from Harvard University, where she was advised by Lauren Williams. She spent two years in the UK as a Marshall Scholar, completing the Part III Mathematics program at Cambridge University and an MSc by Research at Durham University. She received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan.
Her main research interest is algebraic combinatorics, with connections to algebra, algebraic geometry, and representation theory. She focuses on problems involving cluster algebras and scattering diagrams, especially positivity properties.