Anna_Wienhard

Anna Wienhard

Anna Wienhard

German mathematician

Anna Katharina Wienhard (born 1977)[1] is a German mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry, and especially the use of higher Teichmüller spaces to study the deformation theory of symmetric geometric structures.[1] She is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.[2]

Wienhard at Oberwolfach, 2010

Education and career

Wienhard did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn, earning a double degree in theology and mathematics.[1] Continuing at Bonn, she earned a doctorate in 2004 under the joint supervision of Hans Werner Ballmann and Marc Burger.[3]

After holding temporary positions at the University of Basel, Institute for Advanced Study, and University of Chicago, she took a faculty position at Princeton University in 2007. She moved to Heidelberg as a full professor in 2012[4] and to Leipzig as a research director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences[2] in 2022.

Recognition

From 2009 to 2013, Wienhard was a member of the Young Academy of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[4] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5] She was elected as a regular member of the Leopoldina in 2023.[6]

She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2012,[7] and an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.[8] She was named MSRI Clay Senior Scholar for Fall 2019.[9]

References

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    European Research Council Funds Heidelberg Mathematician, Press Release, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, February 5, 2014, retrieved 2015-01-18.
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    Anna Wienhard, Scientific Members, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, retrieved 2023-09-09
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    Anna Wienhard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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    Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-01-18.
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    List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-18.
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    "Anna Wienhard". Members. Leopoldina. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
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    Preise und Auszeichnungen (in German), German Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-11-05
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    "Invited section lectures", ICM 2018, archived from the original on 2017-10-25, retrieved 2018-08-08
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    MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
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