Michelle Manes
I’m a mathematician and Deputy Director of the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). My research is in arithmetic dynamics and number theory, and much of my work centers on building and sustaining research communities — especially ones that widen who gets to do mathematics.
I’m also Co-Editor-in-Chief of La Matematica, the flagship journal of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and Associate Secretary for the Western Section of the American Mathematical Society.
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About
My research is in arithmetic dynamics — the study of number-theoretic and arithmetic-geometric questions that arise from iterating dominant self-maps of projective varieties — and more broadly in number theory and arithmetic geometry. I earned my Ph.D. at Brown University under Joseph H. Silverman.
For fifteen years I was on the mathematics faculty at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where I was Professor of Mathematics, and from 2018 to 2021 I served as a Program Director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Since 2022 I have been Deputy Director of AIM, helping to lead one of the NSF-supported U.S. mathematical sciences research institutes.
Before returning to graduate school I spent a decade as a mathematics educator, and that experience continues to shape how I think about teaching, mentoring, outreach, and access to mathematics. I’m a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2024) and of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2020).
