Ismar Volić is a professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College, where he has taught since 2006. He received a B.A. from Boston University and a Ph.D. from Brown University. His research is in algebraic topology. He is the author of over thirty articles and two books and has delivered more than two hundred lectures in over twenty countries. Prof. Volić was a visiting professor at MIT, Louvain-la-Neuve University, and the University of Virginia. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. He was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and a Fulbright Specialist and has held an endowed chair at Wellesley.
Prof. Volić was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and came to the U.S. in 1991 to attend his senior year of high school. Soon after he arrived, a war broke out in his country and he has lived in the U.S. ever since. Prof. Volić now travels to Bosnia-Herzegovina frequently through his involvement in various education and research activities, including advising Ph.D. students and working with various agencies to bring quality STEM education to the country.
Prof. Volić likes to teach across the math curriculum, advise student research, and advocate for mathematics as a relevant and vibrant discipline.
