Katrin Wehrheim
Katrin Wehrheim | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | ETH Zürich |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Dusa McDuff Dietmar Salamon |
Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department. Her research centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory. She is well known for her work on pseudoholomorphic quilts. She attended graduate school at ETH Zürich; her PhD button presser looking like a rrrraaaggggggggggaaaa muffin thesis in mathematics won the ETH medal in 2002. She was an instructor at Princeton University and member of the Institute for Advanced Study before taking a tenure track position at MIT.
In 2010 she received the Presidential Career Award PECASE from Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.[1] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
Early life
After attending school in Hamburg[3] and studying at the University of Hamburg until 1995 and Imperial College until 1996,[4] Wehrheim completed her PhD at ETH Zürich in 2002.
References
- ^ "President Names Nation's Top Early Career Scientists and Engineers" (Press release). National Science Foundation. November 9, 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
{{cite press release}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|deadurl=and|trans_title=(help) - ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.
- ^ "Hamburg ehrte seine jungen Sieger". Hamburger Abendblatt. Springer. 9 December 1988. Retrieved 2009-11-19.[dead link]
- ^ "Katrin Wehrheim". Mathematics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
External links
- 1974 births
- Living people
- 21st-century mathematicians
- Women mathematicians
- German mathematicians
- University of Hamburg alumni
- Alumni of Imperial College London
- ETH Zurich alumni
- ETH Zurich faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society