Isabella Novik

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Isabella Novik (born 1971) is a mathematician at the University of Washington, where she holds the Robert R. & Elaine F. Phelps Professor in Mathematics. Her research focuses on algebraic combinatorics and polyhedral combinatorics.

She earned her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999 under Gil Kalai. Her dissertation, Face Numbers of Polytopes and Manifolds, won the Haim Nessyahu Prize for the best doctoral dissertations in mathematics in Israel. Novik was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 2006 to 2008 and was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2017 for contributions to algebraic and geometric combinatorics.