Gordana Matic

{{Short description|Croatian American mathematician}}

Gordana Matic is a Croatian-American mathematician[http://www.croatianhistory.net/mat/cromath.html Croatian Mathematical Diaspora], Darko Zubrinic, March 2002, retrieved 2015-01-18. who works as a professor at the University of Georgia.[http://www.math.uga.edu/dept_members/index.html Faculty directory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101040621/http://www.math.uga.edu/dept_members/index.html |date=2015-01-01 }}, Univ. of Georgia Dept. of Mathematics, retrieved 2015-01-18. Her research concerns low-dimensional topology and contact geometry.

Matic earned her doctorate from the University of Utah in 1986, under the supervision of Ronald J. Stern,{{mathgenealogy|id=20101}} and worked as a C.L.E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the University of Georgia faculty.[http://www.math.utah.edu/newsletter/aftermath/1986_87.pdf University of Utah Mathematics Department Newsletter], 1986–1987, retrieved 2015-01-18.[http://www-math.mit.edu/~hrm/moores.txt Moore Instructors at MIT from 1949] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608181031/http://www-math.mit.edu/~hrm/moores.txt |date=2011-06-08 }}, Haynes Miller, retrieved 2015-01-18.

Matic was the Spring 2012 speaker in the University of Texas Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series.[http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wmath/past.html Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series], University of Texas, retrieved 2015-01-18. In 2014, she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to low-dimensional and contact topology."[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2015-01-18.