Christine Breiner is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. Breiner's research interests include topics in geometric analysis and partial differential equations. She studies minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces and harmonic maps and looks at the intersection of differential geometry, analysis, and topology. Her most recent work focuses on harmonic maps into singular spaces with positive curvature.
Breiner has been the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER research grant for her work in variational problems in geometric analysis, as well as an American Mathematical Society Simons Travel Grant, among others.
She has received several teaching awards from Fordham University, where she held appointments as Assistant and Associate Professor, and from John Hopkins, where she was selected for the 2005 William Kelso Morrill Teaching Award for the graduate student who best displays love of teaching, love of mathematics, and concern for students, which has only grown and expanded in her time in professorial appointments.
Breiner is currently serving as the lead organizer for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute’s Spring 2022 Hot Topics workshop.
She holds a PhD and an MA in Mathematics from John Hopkins University.
