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= Sarah Brodsky = Dr. Sarah Brodsky is a mathematician that has worked at Freie Universitat Berlin, Stanford University , Eduexplora , and University of California, Berkeley.

Biography
She received her Bachelor's Degree from the University of California, Berkeley in December 2009, while also receiving her Master's Degree in May 2013 there. It is at Technische Universitat Berlin where Brodsky received her Ph.D in Mathematics on September 2016.

Throughout Brodsky's education at these universities, she had done several works that contribute to her main focus, which is to "study connections between tropical geometry, cluster algebras, and zonotopal algebras ."

"Tropical geometry is a relatively new area in mathematics, which might loosely be described as a piece wise linear or skeletonized version of algebraic geometry, using the tropical semi ring of a field ."

"An emerging theory of Zonotopal Algebra is a framework for studying various algebraic, combinatorial, and analytic objects associated to a linear map from a higher-dimensional space to a lower-dimensional one. It provides connections between polynomial structures such as partition functions and positive structure such as f- and h- vectors of matroids. This perspective gives formulas for volumes and lattice point enumerators of zonotopes, hence the name ."

"Cluster algebras are a class of commutative rings introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky (2002,2003,2007). A cluster algebra of ran n is an integral domain A, together with some subsets of size n called clusters whose union generated the algebra A and which satisfy various conditions ."

Career
Brodsky  worked at Stanford University, where she was part of an International Youth Program held at Stanford. She has also taught logic and problem solving courses both in Santiago, Chile and the US at Stanford. Her collaborator's include: Christian Stump, Cesar Ceballos, Jean-Philippe Labbe, Micheal Joswig, Ralph Morrison, and Bernd Sturmfels.

Honors and Awards
Brodsky has received 4 total honors and awards. In 2006, she was awarded the UC Berkeley Alumni Scholarship Leadership Award, and Cal Bears Scholarship. In 2010, she received the Wipprect-Swtiftung Research Grant. Finally, in 2011, she received the Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant.

The Cal Pride Scholarship is an appraisal for Alumni who are able to exemplify pride for everyone, especially those in the LGBTQ community. It is awarded to individuals who are actively involved within the LGBTQ community, and provide good mentorship for others. The Cal Pride Scholarship is one of two honors/awards that should be mentioned and highlighted. In 2010, Brodsky was a honorable mention recipient for NSF Fellowship Graduate Research. It is stated that, "The NSF accords Honorable Mention to meritorious applicants who do not receive Fellowship awards. This is considered a significant national academic achievement. "  The importance of this quote lies in the following, "...after she was awarded the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship, there were colleagues who told her that she’d won the award only because she’s a woman.  This kind of thinking—that women’s professional accomplishments are due to tokenism, not their abilities or hard work—plays a role in why women may be overlooked for leadership roles in their field... "