Biography:Lilian Matthiesen

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Lilian Matthiesen (born 1984)[1] is a mathematician whose research involves analytic number theory including the application of Fourier analysis to Diophantine geometry.[2] Educated in England, she has worked in France, Germany, and Sweden, and is University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany.[3]

Education and career

Matthiesen earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England in 2012, with the dissertation Applications of the nilpotent Hardy–Littlewood method supervised by Ben Green.[4]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Bristol, and in France at Paris-Sud University and the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche, she became an assistant professor at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany in 2015. She moved to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2016,[1] and became an associate professor there,[5] before taking a position as University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany.[3]

Recognition

Matthiesen was the 2020 recipient of the Göran Gustafsson Prize,[1] a 2023 recipient of the Wallenberg Prize of the Swedish Mathematical Society,[6] and the 2024 recipient of the Tage Erlander Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 (in sv) Lilian Matthiesen, Teknisk fysik, KTH, Göran Gustafsson Foundation, 20 April 2020, https://gustafssonsstiftelser.se/lilian-matthiesen-teknisk-fysik-uu/, retrieved 2024-08-14 
  2. 2.0 2.1 (in sv) Yngre forskare tilldelas nationellt pris och belöning, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 21 March 2024, https://www.kva.se/nyheter/yngre-forskare-tilldelas-nationellt-pris-och-beloning/, retrieved 2024-08-14 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "People", Mathematical Institute (University of Göttingen), https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/266244.html, retrieved 2024-08-14 
  4. Lilian Matthiesen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Lilian Matthiesen", Profiles (KTH), https://www.kth.se/profile/lilianma?l=en, retrieved 2024-08-14 
  6. "We congratulate", SCI Newsletter (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): p. 9, March 2023, https://intra.kth.se/polopoly_fs/1.1245793.1680690628!/Newsletter%20March.pdf, retrieved 2024-08-14