Barbara Kaltenbacher facts for kids

Barbara Kaltenbacher is a famous mathematician from Austria. She studies special math problems called inverse problems. These problems help us understand things like how sound waves travel or how certain materials create electricity. She is a professor at the University of Klagenfurt. She has also been a leader in the European Mathematical Society. Barbara Kaltenbacher has written many scientific papers and four books about math.

Her Journey in Mathematics

Barbara Kaltenbacher studied mathematics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. She earned her first degree in 1993. Then, she completed her doctorate degree in 1996. Her main teacher for her doctorate was Heinz Engl.

After her studies, Barbara Kaltenbacher led important research projects. From 1999 to 2001, she led a Hertha Firnberg Project. This project was supported by the Austrian Science Fund. Later, from 2003 to 2006, she led an Emmy Noether Junior Research group. This group was supported by the German Research Foundation.

She worked as a temporary professor at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and the University of Göttingen. In 2006, she became a professor of Optimization at the University of Stuttgart. She then moved to the University of Graz in 2010. There, she was a professor of Applied Mathematics. Since 2011, she has been a professor at the University of Klagenfurt.

Barbara Kaltenbacher has also held important leadership roles. She was the president of the Austrian Mathematical Society from 2018 to 2021. She also led the scientific advisory board of the Weierstrass Institute from 2015 to 2021. In 2021, she was chosen as a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Books She Has Written

Barbara Kaltenbacher has written or co-written several important books about mathematics. These books are called monographs, which means they are detailed studies on a single subject.

• Iterative Regularization Methods for Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems (with Andreas Neubauer and Otmar Scherzer, published in 2008)
• Regularization Methods in Banach Spaces (with Thomas Schuster, Bernd Hofmann, and Kamil S. Kazimierskide, published in 2012)
• Mathematical Theory of Evolutionary Fluid-Flow Structure Interactions (with Igor Kukavica, Irena Lasiecka, Roberto Triggiani, Amjad Tuffaha, and Justin T. Webster, published in 2018)
• Inverse Problems for Fractional Partial Differential Equations (with William Rundell, published in 2023)