Elisabetta Matsumoto

Elisabetta Matsumoto is an American physicist whose scientific interests include the study of knitted fabrics' special mathematical and mechanical properties.^[1]

Elisabetta Matsumoto
Nationality	American
Occupation	Physics Professor
Known for	studying knitted fabrics' special mathematical and mechanical properties

After earning her PhD Matsumoto accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.^[2]

In 2019 Matsumoto received five years of funding to study the mathematics of knitting from the National Science Foundation. ^[1][3]

In 2019 Matsumoto was recognized with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a distinction the Foundation gives to particularly promising scientists relatively early in their careers.^[4]

The New York Times profiled Matsumoto following her popular presentations at the 2019 meeting of the American Physical Society.^[1]

Combining her interests in mathematics and the mechanical properties of knitting she is one of 24 mathematicians and artists who make up the Mathemalchemy Team.^[5]

Education

• Postdoctoral fellow, applied mathematics, Harvard University
• Postdoctoral fellow, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University
• PhD in Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
• MS in Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
• BA in Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 2007