Eleny Ionel

Ionel is from Iași. She is the daughter of Adrian Ionel, a professor at the Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Iași. She attended the prestigious Costache Negruzzi National College, graduating in 1987. She earned a bachelor's degree from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in 1991, and completed her Ph.D. in 1996 from Michigan State University. Her dissertation, Genus One Enumerative Invariants in \mathbf{P}^n, was supervised by Thomas H. Parker. After postdoctoral research at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California and a position as C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty in 1998, and moved to Stanford in 2004. ==Recognition==

Ionel is a Sloan Research Fellow and a Simons Fellow. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. She was selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to symplectic geometry and the geometric analysis approach to Gromov–Witten Theory". ==Selected publications==

• {{citation | last = Ionel | first = Eleny-Nicoleta | doi = 10.1007/s002220100205 | issue = 3 | journal = Inventiones Mathematicae | mr = 1908062 | pages = 627–658 | title = Topological recursive relations in H^{2g}(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}) | volume = 148 | year = 2002| s2cid = 125964304 }} • • ==References==