Barbara Wohlmuth

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Barbara I. Wohlmuth is a German mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations. She holds the chair of numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).{{r|ll}}

Education and career

Wohlmuth earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1991 from Joseph Fourier University in France, and a diploma in 1992 from TUM.{{r|ll}}

She completed a doctorate at TUM in 1995, under the supervision of Ronald Hoppe,{{r|ll|mgp}} and earned her habilitation in 2000 at the University of Augsburg.

She worked as a full professor at the University of Stuttgart from 2001 until 2010, when she returned to TUM.{{r|ll}}

Recognition

In 2005, the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere in Milan gave her their International Giovanni Sacchi Landriani Prize. She won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2012.{{r|gwlp}} In 2013 she was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.{{r|ab3}} In 2020 she was named a SIAM Fellow "for sustained seminal contributions to the field of numerical mathematics and for exemplary leadership and service to the computational science community".{{r|sif}} She was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2022.{{r|leo}}

She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2014,{{r|noether}} and an invited speaker on numerical analysis and scientific computing at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.{{r|icm}}

References

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[https://www.tum.de/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/detail/article/30471/ Akademie beruft drei TUM-Wissenschaftlerinnen] (in German), Technical University of Munich, retrieved 2017-08-07.

[https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/gefoerderte_projekte/preistraeger/gwl-preis/2012/laudatio_wohlmuth.pdf Leibniz-Laudationes 2012: Barbara Wohlmuth, Numerische Mathematik] (in German), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, retrieved 2017-08-07.

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{{citation|url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/barbara-wohlmuth/|title=Barbara Wohlmuth|work=Members|publisher=Leopoldina|access-date=2023-05-17}}

[https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/gefoerderte_projekte/preistraeger/gwl-preis/2012/lebenslauf_wohlmuth.pdf Lebenslauf], retrieved 2017-08-07.

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