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Christine Elaine Soteros is a Canadian expert in applied mathematics. This means she uses math to solve real-world problems, especially in science and engineering. She is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. From 2015 to 2024, she also helped lead the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan.

Who is Christine Soteros?

Christine Soteros is known for her work on how things like DNA and proteins fold and pack together. Imagine a long string that folds up into a tiny ball – she studies the math behind how that happens. She also researches knot theory, which looks at how tangled up these "string-like" molecules can get.

Her Education Journey

Christine Soteros started her higher education at the University of Windsor, where she graduated in 1980. She then went on to Princeton University and earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1988. After her Ph.D., she did more research at the University of Toronto. In 1989, she joined the faculty at the University of Saskatchewan, where she has been teaching and researching ever since.

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