Biography:Anna Wienhard

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Wienhard at Oberwolfach, 2010

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]

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 European Research Council Funds Heidelberg Mathematician, Press Release, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, February 5, 2014, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Anna Wienhard, Scientific Members, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, retrieved 2023-09-09
  3. Anna Wienhard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 4.0 4.1 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  6. "Anna Wienhard". Members. Leopoldina. https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/anna-wienhard/. 
  7. (in German) Preise und Auszeichnungen, German Mathematical Society, https://www.mathematik.de/dmv/preise-auszeichnungen, retrieved 2018-11-05 
  8. "Invited section lectures", ICM 2018, http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/invited-section-lectures-speakers, retrieved 2018-08-08 
  9. MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". http://www.msri.org/. 

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