Opening Remarks | Margot Gerritsen | WiDS 2018
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Margot Gerritsen, Director of ICME at Stanford University opens the WiDS 2018 Conference held at Stanford University on March 5, 2018.
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Co-Founder, WiDS Worldwide
Margot Gerritsen is a Professor at Stanford University and co-founder and co-director of WiDS Worldwide. Her expertise is in computational mathematics. She is particularly fond of computational fluid dynamics and linear algebra. Margot received her MS from TU Delft and her PhD from Stanford. Prior to her position at Stanford, she spent five years as a faculty member at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Margot was born and raised in the Netherlands and left the flat lands in 1990 in search of hillier and sunnier places. She still has her Dutch accent. She currently lives in the Oregon mountains with her partner Paul.