elham izadi received her ph.d. from the university of utah in 1991 with a follow-up degree from the university of paris xi in 1993. she was a benjamin pierce assistant professor at harvard (1991-95) and was then recruited by the university of georgia in athens (uga) where she has been a faculty member since 1995.

izadi is an expert in algebraic geometry, including hodge theory, moduli spaces, abelian varieties and curves, vector bundles and classical geometry.