Katrin Wendland

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Katrin Wendland (born 1970) [1] is a German mathematical physicist who works as a professor at Trinity College Dublin. [2]

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. [2]

In 2009, Wendland was given the Medal for special merits for Bavaria in a united Europe by the Bavarian government. [2] 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. [3] She was elected to the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in 2013. [2] In 2023 she was elected a fellow of Trinity College Dublin. [4]

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References

  1. Birth year from 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Curriculum Vitae". www.maths.tcd.ie. School of Mathematics. Retrieved 27 May 2023..
  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-12-24.
  4. "Trinity Monday 2023 - Fellows and Scholars". www.tcd.ie. Trinity College Dublin. 25 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.