QnA with Dr Maria-Romina IVAN, Cambridge Mathematics Research Fellow

Dr Maria Ivan is a Research Fellow at Magdalene College as well as a member of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. She is a pure mathematician interested in combinatorics, the study of discrete finite structures. She is originally from Romania and came to Cambridge in 2015 where she completed her BS, MMath and PhD in mathematics at St John's College. Since 2019 she has been an admission interviewer at a number of Cambridge colleges, including Trinity, St John's and Magdalene. A former EGMO Bronze and Silver medallist herself, she is very active in the academic organisation of both the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) and the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).