Chelsea Walton

Chelsea Walton (born in 1983) is an American mathematician whose research interests include noncommutative algebra, noncommutative algebraic geometry, symmetry in quantum mechanics, Hopf algebras, and quantum groups. She is an associate professor at Rice University and a Sloan Research Fellow. Quotes Every step in my career has served a purpose. Of course, each step provided me with a particular level of training. But the steps also bought me time to figure out what I like and what I don’t like professionally and personally. If I had to end with some advice, I would say: Take each of these steps seriously and not to rush ahead to the next one. When you don't feel valued, you feel like sh*t. When you feel like sh*t, you don't do good math. I grew up not having any clue what a Mathematician was… so I looked up and wrote to random Math Professors. It sounds silly, but this actually helped shape my career path. Doing math for a living is a sweet gig, and I am deeply grateful to be a part of the mathematics community. External links Category:Women mathematicians from the United States Category:21st-century African-American women Category:21st-century African-American scientists Category:1983 births Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:Living people Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty