Molly Maurer Fox and Stanislav Minsker were married Oct. 27 at a private estate in Oxnard, Calif. Rabbi Sarah Bassin officiated.
The bride, 32, is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the departments of anthropology and psychiatry, and biobehavioral sciences. She graduated from Yale and received a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a Gates scholar.
Dr. Fox is a daughter of Katherine A. Maurer and Mitchell B. Fox of Plandome, N.Y. The bride’s father is a member of the board of directors of both Viridian Capital Advisors, a New York investment firm, and Civilized Worldwide, a Canadian media company. He was formerly group president, publishing director of Condé Nast, and the publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. Her mother retired as an alumni affairs coordinator at Friends Academy, a Quaker college preparatory school in Locust Valley, N.Y.
The groom, 33, is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the department of mathematics. He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University in Russia and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Minsker is the son of Dr. Elena Dyupina and Nikolai Minsker of Novosibirsk. The groom’s mother is a dermatologist at the Novosibirsk Regional Skin and Venereal Diseases Clinic. His father, a retired civil engineer, was the chief executive of Promzernoproyekt, a design firm, also in Novosibirsk, specializing in the building of flour mills.
The couple met in 2016 through JSwipe, the Jewish dating app.
