Margot Gerritsen

Biography: Margot Gerritsen is the Executive Director of WiDS Worldwide. She is Professor [Emerita] at Stanford University. Margot grew up in the Netherlands and left for sunnier and hillier places after receiving her MSc degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Technology in Delft.

After wandering around Scandinavia, Atlanta, and Colorado, she went to Stanford University and received her Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics in 1996. Feeling she needed to go further West still, she spent 5 years as a Lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand before returning to Stanford in 2001 as a faculty member. From 2010-2018 she was the Director of the 

Stanford Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering. During this time, she founded WiDS with two friends and organized the first WiDS conference in 2015. 

Margot is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and received honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala and the University of Eindhoven.

Margot now resides in Bend with her husband Paul. She loves the outdoors and is frequently in the mountains or on the rivers with Paul, their dog Millie, and whenever he can take time off from work, her son Callum. She is also trying to learn to play banjo.