Keri Kornelson received a Bachelor's degree with distinction from the University of Colordo, Boulder in 1989 and a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Maryland, European Division (England) in 1992. She received her Master's degree in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2001. She was an NSF-VIGRE postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M University from 2001-4 and has been an Assistant Professor at Grinnell College since 2004. Her research interests include harmonic and functional analysis, particularly as applied to wavelets, frames, and iterated function systems.

She is currently on a year-long research leave from Grinnell funded in part by a Career Enhacement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. She has been fortunate to solve her 2-body problem by accepting a tenure-track job in the mathematics department at the University of Oklahoma starting in the fall.