Greg Bell

Greg Bell earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2002 from the University of Florida under the direction of Alexander Dranishnikov. Prior to joining FSU in 2026, he was dean of the Graduate School and professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Pennsylvania State University and has had visiting positions at the University of Louisville and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. Bell's research is concerned with the large-scale properties of discrete metric spaces and groups, including asymptotic dimension, Yu's property A, and similar concepts.