Christine Böckmann

{{short description|German numerical analyst}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Christine Böckmann

| birth_name = Christine Hense

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1955}}

| education = Diploma in 1980, dissertation in 1984 from Dresden University of Technology; habilitation from University of Potsdam

| occupation = Applied mathematician

}}

Christine Böckmann (née Hense, born 1955) is a German applied mathematician, numerical analyst, and expert on atmospheric lidar. She is an außerplanmäßiger Professor of mathematics at the University of Potsdam,{{r|home}} and one of the Principal Investigators of EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network.{{r|earlinet}}

Böckmann studied mathematics at the Dresden University of Technology, earning a diploma in 1980 and completing her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1984.{{r|home}} Her dissertation, Ein ableitungsfreies Verfahren vom Gauß-Newton-Typ zur Lösung von nichtlinearen Quadratmittelproblemen mit separierten Variablen, was supervised by Hubert Schwetlick.{{r|mg}} She subsequently completed a habilitation at the University of Potsdam.{{r|home}}