Katrin Wendland

{{short description|German mathematical physicist}}

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Katrin Wendland (born 1970)Birth year from [https://books.google.com/books?id=6zYpBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA461 author information] for her edited volume with Annette Werner, Facettenreiche Mathematik: Einblicke in die moderne mathematische Forschung für alle, die mehr von Mathematik verstehen wollen (Springer, 2011), p. 461. is a German mathematical physicist who works as a professor at Trinity College Dublin.{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~wendland/cv.html |website=www.maths.tcd.ie |publisher=School of Mathematics |accessdate=27 May 2023}}.

Wendland earned a diploma in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 1996, and a PhD in physics from the University of Bonn in 2000, under the supervision of Werner Nahm. After being a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Warwick from 2002 to 2006, she returned to Germany as a professor at the University of Augsburg, where she held the Chair for Analysis and Geometry. She moved to Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2011 and then to Trinity College Dublin in 2022.

In 2009, Wendland was given the Medal for special merits for Bavaria in a united Europe by the Bavarian government. In 2010 she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, with a talk entitled "On the geometry of singularities in quantum field theories". 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 2014-12-24. She was elected to the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in 2013. In 2023 she was elected a fellow of Trinity College Dublin.{{cite web|title=Trinity Monday 2023 - Fellows and Scholars |url=https://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/fellowship/ |website=www.tcd.ie |publisher=Trinity College Dublin |date=25 April 2023 |accessdate=27 May 2023}}