Elise Lockwood is a Professor in the Mathematics Department at Oregon State University. She received her PhD in Mathematics Education from Portland State University and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests focus on undergraduate students’ reasoning about combinatorics. She received an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate ways that computational activities can be leveraged to support students’ combinatorial thinking and activity, and she was recently announced as a 2025 PECASE Awardee. She was a 2019 Fulbright Scholar to Oslo, Norway, where she collaborated with researchers at the Center for Computing in Science Education at the University of Oslo. She is a Co-Editor-in-Chief at the International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Education, and she served as a rotating program officer in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the NSF from 2021-2024.
Elise’s favorite part of her work is collaborating with wonderful colleagues and students, and she finds it particularly rewarding when ideas are developed and refined through rich conversations. In her spare time, Elise enjoys cooking, reading, running, traveling, playing games, and spending time with her Ragdoll cats.
