Tanya Julie Christiansen is an American mathematician who works in scattering theory and the theory of partial differential equations. [1] She is Luther Marion Defoe Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri. [2]
Christiansen graduated summa cum laude in 1989 from Rice University, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. [3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Scattering Theory on Compact Manifolds with Boundary, was supervised by Richard Burt Melrose. [4]
After postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, she joined the University of Missouri faculty in 1995. [3] She became Defoe Distinguished Professor in 2019. [2]
