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Cornelia Druțu
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| Alma mater | Université Paris-Sud XI University of Iași |
| Awards | Whitehead Prize (2009) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford University of Lille 1 |
| Thesis | Réseaux non uniformes des groupes de Lie semi-simple de rang >1: invariants de quasiisométrie (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Pierre Pansu |
Cornelia Druțu is a Romanian mathematician notable for her contributions in the area of geometric group theory. She is Professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
Education and career
Druțu was born in Iași, Romania. She attended the Emil Racoviță High School (now the National College Emil Racoviță) in Iași. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Iași, where besides attending the core courses she received extra curricular teaching in geometry and topology from Professor Liliana Răileanu.
In 1996 Druțu earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Paris-Sud, with a thesis entitled Réseaux non uniformes des groupes de Lie semi-simple de rang supérieur et invariants de quasiisométrie, written under the supervision of Pierre Pansu. She then joined the University of Lille 1 as Maître de conférences (MCF). In 2004 she earned her Habilitation degree from the University of Lille 1.
In 2009 she became Professor of mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
She held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California. She visited the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge as holder of a Simons Fellowship. From 2013 to 2020 she chaired the European Mathematical Society/European Women in Mathematics scientific panel of women mathematicians.
Awards
In 2009, Druțu was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for her work in geometric group theory.
In 2017, Druțu was awarded a Simons Visiting Fellowship.
See also
In Spanish: Cornelia Druțu para niños
- Geometric group theory
- Ultralimit
- Tree-graded space
- Kazhdan's property (T)
