Career
She is a professor at Heidelberg University. 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.
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. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.