Hélène Esnault

Hélène Esnault 2006

Hélène Esnault (born July 17, 1953 in Paris ) is a French- German mathematician and university professor who deals with algebraic geometry .

Career

Esnault studied from 1973 at the École normal supérieure de Jeune Filles, received her diploma (DEA) from the University of Paris VII in 1975 and her Agrégation in 1976. In 1976 she received her doctorate there under Lê Dũng Tráng (Singularités rationelles et groupes algébriques). The second part of the French doctorate (Doctorat d'Etat) followed there in 1984. She also completed her habilitation in 1985 at the University of Bonn , where she was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics from 1983 to 1985. From 1977 to 1983 she was an assistant at the University of Paris VII and in 1989/90 Maître de conférences . From 1990 she was a professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen . Since autumn 2012 she has held the first Einstein professorship at the Free University of Berlin . Before that, she was Professor of Algebraic Geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen , as well as at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and at the University of Paris VII.

In 2007 she was the founding editor of Algebra and Number Theory magazine . From 1998 to 2010 she was co-editor of Mathematische Annalen , since 2007 of Mathematical Research Letters, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, since 2011 of Astérisque and since 1995 of the Duke Mathematical Journal. She is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (since 2005), the Leopoldina (since 2008), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (since 2010) and the Academia Europaea (since 2014).

She has both French and German citizenship. She was married to Eckart Viehweg .

In 2018 she was on the Fields Medal Award Committee .

Awards

From 1985 to 1989 she was a Heisenberg fellow .
2001: Prix Paul Doistau - Émile Bleeds from the Académie des sciences
2002: Invited Speaker at the ICM in Beijing (Characteristic classes of flat bundles and determinant of the Gauss-Manin-connection)
2003: Leibniz Prize with Eckart Viehweg
2009: Honorary doctorate from the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology in Hanoi
2009: “Advanced Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC), worth € 1 million
2010: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , math and science class
2011: Chaire d´Excellence de la Fondation Mathématique de Paris
2019: Georg Cantor Medal of the German Mathematicians Association