Lilian Matthiesen

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Lilian Matthiesen (born 1984) [1] is a mathematician whose research involves analytic number theory including the application of Fourier analysis to Diophantine geometry. [2] Educated in England, she has worked in France, Germany, and Sweden, and is University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany. [3]

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Education and career

Matthiesen earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England in 2012, with the dissertation Applications of the nilpotent Hardy–Littlewood method supervised by Ben Green. [4]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Bristol, and in France at Paris-Sud University and the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche, she became an assistant professor at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany in 2015. She moved to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2016, [1] and became an associate professor there, [5] before taking a position as University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany. [3]

Recognition

Matthiesen was the 2020 recipient of the Göran Gustafsson Prize, [1] a 2023 recipient of the Wallenberg Prize of the Swedish Mathematical Society, [6] and the 2024 recipient of the Tage Erlander Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Yngre forskare tilldelas nationellt pris och belöning [Young researchers are awarded national prizes and awards] (in Swedish), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 21 March 2024, retrieved 2024-08-14
  3. 1 2 "People", Mathematical Institute, University of Göttingen, retrieved 2024-08-14
  4. Lilian Matthiesen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Lilian Matthiesen", Profiles, KTH, retrieved 2024-08-14
  6. "We congratulate" (PDF), SCI Newsletter, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, p. 9, March 2023, retrieved 2024-08-14