Catherine Meusburger

Catherine Meusburger (born January 7, 1978 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian mathematician and physicist who conducts research in the field of string theory . Since April 2011 she has been Professor of Mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Meusburger grew up in Heidelberg and graduated from the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium there in 1996. With a grade point average of 1.0, she was the best student in her year nationwide. In the same year Meusburger began studying physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , which she graduated with a diploma in 2001 with a thesis on “ The quantization of the closed, bosonic Nambu-Goto string with the help of a concrete realization ”. For this work, which was rated “very good with distinction”, she received the University's Gustav Mie Prize in 2002 , which is awarded annually for the best diploma thesis in the field of physics.

She then began a doctoral degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh , supported by the German National Academic Foundation , which she completed in 2004 with her dissertation “ Phase space and quantization of (2 + 1) -dimensional gravity in the Chern-Simons formulation ” with Bernd Schroers graduated.

From October 2004, Meusburger spent four years as a postdoc at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo (Ontario) before joining the University of Nottingham as a Marie Curie Intra European Research Fellow for six months in 2008 . She then headed an Emmy Noether junior research group at the University of Hamburg until 2011 .

Web links

• Website
• Catherine Meusburger in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catherine Meusburger: Curriculum Vitae Accessed June 11, 2012.
2. ^ University of Freiburg: Prizes / Prize Winners 1999-2008 ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Published on May 18, 2009. Accessed on June 11, 2012.
3. ↑ Catherine Meusburger in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)