Anna Wienhard
{{short description|German mathematician}}
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Anna Katharina Wienhard (born 1977)[http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/272545/ European Research Council Funds Heidelberg Mathematician], Press Release, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, February 5, 2014, retrieved 2015-01-18. 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. She is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.[https://www.mpg.de/19381685/mathematics-in-the-sciences-wienhard Anna Wienhard], Scientific Members, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, retrieved 2023-09-09
Education and career
Wienhard did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn, earning a double degree in theology and mathematics. Continuing at Bonn, she earned a doctorate in 2004 under the joint supervision of Hans Werner Ballmann and Marc Burger.{{mathgenealogy|id=98035}}
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[http://www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/~wienhard/ Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2015-01-18. and to Leipzig as a research director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences 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. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2015-01-18. She was elected as a regular member of the Leopoldina in 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/anna-wienhard/|title=Anna Wienhard|work=Members|publisher=Leopoldina|access-date=2023-05-17}}
She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2012,{{citation|url=https://www.mathematik.de/dmv/preise-auszeichnungen|title=Preise und Auszeichnungen|publisher=German Mathematical Society|language=German|accessdate=2018-11-05}} and an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.{{citation|url=http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/invited-section-lectures-speakers|title=Invited section lectures|work=ICM 2018|accessdate=2018-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025163517/http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/invited-section-lectures-speakers|archive-date=2017-10-25|url-status=dead}} She was named MSRI Clay Senior Scholar for Fall 2019.{{Cite web|last=MSRI|title=Mathematical Sciences Research Institute|url=http://www.msri.org/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.msri.org}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/~wienhard/ Wienhard's home page at Heidelberg University]
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Category:21st-century German mathematicians
Category:University of Bonn alumni
Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:Academic staff of Heidelberg University
Category:Max Planck Institute directors