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Elodie Pozzi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Mathematics and Statistics

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Lyon
  • “Agregation” in mathematics: French postgraduate teaching certificate (national competition)
  • Master in Pure Mathematics at the University of Lyon
  • Bachelor's degree at the University of Lyon

Practice Areas

Professor Elodie Pozzi obtained her Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics in 2011 at the University of Lyon, in France, under the guidance of Isabelle Chalendar. Her Ph.D. established results about universal operators and the open problem of the Invariant Subspace Problem.

Interested in how tools in analysis can solve problems in applied mathematics (problems arising from physics and engineering), she did a two-year postdoc at the French research center in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, INRIA at Sophia Antipolis, France. While there, she developed some aspects of her research around approximation problems and connection between pure mathematics and approximation theory.

Then, in 2013, she spent one year as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lille, France. She was then recruited to the University of Bordeaux as a "Maitre de Conferences", the equivalent of an Associate Professor. Since Fall 2024, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at SLU. Professor Pozzi is deeply committed to mentoring undergraduate students in research and she co-designed and is co-leading the Mentoring Math Minds Program.

Research Interests

Complex analysis, function theory, operator theory and application of function and operator theory to approximation theory

Honors and Awards

  • 2025 Chauncey E. Finch Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring

Professional Organizations and Associations

Co-designer and co-leader of the Mentoring Math Minds Program, a research mentoring program supporting both graduate and undergraduate students interested in mathematical research and professional development.