Margaret Readdy is a Professor of Mathematics.  Her research area is algebraic combinatorics, especially interactions of combinatorics with algebra, topology, discrete geometry and number theory.

Readdy's research is supported by the National Science Foundation.

After receiving her PhD in Mathematics, Readdy held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Montréal at Laboratoire de Combinatoire et d'Informatique Mathématiques  (LACIM) at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and was a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University.  In 1998-1999 Readdy was a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the following year she held a Visiting Professorship at Stockholm University. Readdy joined the University of Kentucky faculty in Fall 2000.

Readdy was a Visiting Professor in Applied Mathematics at MIT in 2006--2007 and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2010--2011.  Most recently, in 2014--2015 Readdy was a Visiting Professor and Research Scholar in the Princeton University Mathematics Department.