Catharina Stroppel

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Catharina Stroppel (born August 6, 1971 ) is a German mathematician. She is a professor at the University of Bonn .

Catharina Stroppel, Princeton 2008

From 1991 Stroppel studied mathematics and theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with the aim of becoming a teacher. In 2001 she received her doctorate in Freiburg with Wolfgang Soergel ( The combinatorial function V: Graduated category O, main series and primitive ideals ). As a post-doctoral student she was at the University of Leicester , 2003/2004 Assistant Professor at the University of Aarhus and from 2004 at the University of Glasgow , where she became a lecturer in 2005 and reader in 2007 . In 2007/08 she was a Von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has been a professor in Bonn since 2008.

It deals with representation theory of groups and algebras and category theory with applications in geometry and topology, e.g. B. the extraction of node invariants with the method of categorization (based on the model of Mikhail Khovanov ).

In 2007 she received the Whitehead Prize . In 2010 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad ( Schur-Weyl dualities and link homologies ). In 2018 she was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

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