Barbara Wohlmuth
Barbara Wohlmuth (born October 13, 1967 ) is a German mathematician . Since 2010 she has been professor for numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Munich .
Live and act
Wohlmuth studied at the University of Grenoble and the Technical University of Munich, where she did her doctorate in 1995 with Ronald Hoppe ( Adaptive Multilevel Finite Element Methods for Solving Elliptic Boundary Value Problems ). She then prepared her habilitation (2000) as a research assistant at the University of Augsburg . She also spent a year at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University .
In 2000, she accepted an appointment as professor for applied mathematics at the University of Stuttgart . Since 2010 she has been professor for numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Munich.
Her work focuses on the numerics of partial differential equations and finite element methods with application in solid mechanics and nonlinear mechanics.
She was visiting professor in France and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong .
Awards and honors (selection)
- 2005: Sacchi Landriani Prize Accademia di Scienze e Lettere in Milan
- 2012: Leibniz Prize in the field of numerical mathematics
- 2016: Plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians (Complexity reduction techniques for the numerical solution of PDEs)
Memberships (selection)
Wohlmuth is on the scientific advisory board of the Weierstrass Institute and was co-editor of the SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara Wohlmuth in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wohlmuth, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1967 |