Biography:Hélène Esnault

Hélène Esnault

Hélène Esnault (born 1953 in Paris) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. She received her PhD in 1976 under Professor Lê Dũng Tráng, writing her dissertation on Singularites rationnelles et groupes algebriques (Rational singularities and algebraic groups).

Early life and education

Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII and did her habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1985. studied mathematics at the university of Essen. Afterwards, she was a Heisenberg scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

Career

She became the first Einstein Professor at Freie Universität Berlin in 2012, as head of the algebra and number theory research group, after working previously at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, and at the University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.

Awards and honors

In 2001 she won the Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet of the Académie des Sciences de Paris. In 2003, Esnault and Eckart Viehweg received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. n 2014 she was elected to the Academia Europaea and is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Europäische Akademie Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 2019, she won the Cantor medal.

External links

• Hélène Esnault in the German National Library catalogue
• Homepage
• Book: Hélène Esnault, Eckart Viehweg: "Lectures on Vanishing Theorems" (PDF, 1.3 MB)