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Azadeh Rafizadeh

Azadeh Rafizadeh

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Azadeh Rafizadeh

I was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. I immigrated to the United States when I was twenty years old and started my higher education journey, as a first-generation college student, at a community college in California: Santa Monica College. As a woman raised in a traditional culture and family, I was not supposed to be interested in a male-dominated field such as pure mathematics. However, I fell in love with the subject and decided to pursue it. Against all obstacles, I earned my Ph.D. in pure mathematics in 2011.

Contact Information

Azadeh Rafizadeh
She/her/hers
Email: arafizad@jccc.edu
Phone: (913) 469-3086, Ext. 8668
Office: CLB 118

Degrees Obtained/Where/When

  • B.A. in Mathematics, California State University at Northridge, 2003
  • M.S. in Mathematics, University of California at Riverside, 2007
  • Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California at Riverside, 2011

Areas of Interest

  • Low-dimensional topology
  • Knot theory
  • Symmetric polynomials
  • Lie Algebras