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Katrin A.M. Wendland, German mathematics professor. Member of German Mathematics Union, American Mathematics Society, London Mathematics Society (Women in Mathematics committee 2003-2005).

Background

Wendland, Katrin A.M. was born on July 18, 1970 in Berlin. Daughter of Wolfgang Leopold and Gisela Berta Elisabeth Wendland.

Education

Wendland earned a diploma in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 1996, and a Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of Bonn in 2000, under the supervision of Werner Nahm.

Career

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 Freiburg in 2011. 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. She was elected to the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in 2013.

Achievements

  • Katrin Master of Arts Wendland has been listed as a noteworthy mathematics professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of German Mathematics Union, American Mathematics Society, London Mathematics Society (Women in Mathematics committee 2003-2005).

Connections

Father:
Wolfgang Leopold

Mother:
Gisela Berta Elisabeth Wendland