Distinction for Anna Wienhard

Anna Wienhard, group leader at HITS and professor at the Mathematical Institute of Heidelberg University, has been elected ordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She received her certificate on 29 November during the Einstein Day ceremony at the academy in Berlin.

Anna Wienhard studied at the University of Bonn where she earned a degree in both theology and mathematics. After one year in the collaborative research center “Judaism – Christianity,” she decided to focus on mathematics and received her doctorate at the University of Bonn in 2004. She subsequently worked as a postdoc at the University of Basel. In 2005, she moved to the US, where she pursued her research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the University of Chicago, before she became assistant professor at Princeton University in 2007. In 2012, she received several offers from universities in the USA, Germany, and Austria and was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of Heidelberg University where she leads the research group “Differential Geometry”. Since 2015 Wienhard is also head of the associated “Groups and Geometry” group at HITS.

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