Jeffrey Brock
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Jeffrey Farlowe Brock (born June 14, 1970 in Bronxville, New York) is an American mathematician, working in low-dimensional geometry and topology. He is known for his contributions to the understanding of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and the geometry of Teichmüller spaces.
Since July 2018, Brock has been a Professor of Mathematics at Yale University,[1] and in January 2019 he became the first FAS (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) dean of science at Yale.[1] In July 2019, he was additionally appointed Dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science.[2]
Before joining Yale, he was a professor at Brown University,[3] and also founding director of the Data Science Initiative[4] at Brown University.