Nina Holden

Norwegian-born probability theorist at NYU Courant. First woman to win Norway's Abel competition; IMO 2005 honorable mention for Norway. She earned a bachelor's (2008) and master's (2010) at the University of Oslo, worked as an energy-market analyst, then completed a PhD at MIT in 2018 under Scott Sheffield. After a Junior Fellowship at ETH Zurich she joined NYU Courant. Recognized with the 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, the 2022 Viggo Brun Prize, the 2023 Rollo Davidson Prize and the 2024 EMS Prize.

Nina Holden is a Norwegian mathematician working in probability theory and mathematical physics, including graphons, random planar maps, Schramm-Loewner evolution, Liouville quantum gravity and their applications to quantum gravity. She was a Junior Fellow at ETH Zurich and is an Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. As a high-school student at Berg Upper Secondary School in Oslo she became the first woman to win the Abel competition, Norway's national Mathematical Olympiad, and competed at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning an honorable mention.

Details

LocationNew York City Metropolitan Area

Company sitenyu.edu

UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology

ProgrammingEnglishMatlabPythonPhysicsAlgorithmsMathematical ModelingNumerical AnalysisOptimizationStatisticsApplied MathematicsModelingScience

Notes

Represented Norway at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning an honorable mention with one of the two top scores on the Norwegian team (rank 277, 46.2%).
First woman to win Norway's Abel competition (national Mathematical Olympiad) as a student at Berg Upper Secondary School, Oslo.
Took a three-year detour as an energy-market analyst at Statkraft before starting graduate study at MIT, arriving in pure mathematics via industry.

Experience

Junior Fellow (postdoc) at ETH Zürich

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Trainee/Market Analyst at Statkraft

President of IAESTE Local Committee Oslo at IAESTE LC Oslo

Summer Student at SINTEF

Technical Student at CERN

Assistant teacher at University of Oslo

Summer Student at Simula Research Laboratory

Summer Student at FFI

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PhD, Mathematics

University of Oslo

MSc, Applied Mathematics

University of Oslo

BSc, Mathematics and Computational Science

University of Oxford

visiting student

AchievementsMaryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2021), for work in random geometry, particularly Liouville Quantum Gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations · Rollo Davidson Prize (2023) · EMS Prize (2024) · Viggo Brun Prize (2022), Norwegian Mathematical Society

AwardsMaryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2021) · Rollo Davidson Prize (2023) · EMS Prize (2024) · Viggo Brun Prize (2022)

Profiles

LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/nina-holden-565a532b

Competition record