Ilse Fischer facts for kids

Ilse Fischer was born on June 29, 1975. She is a mathematician from Austria. She studies different kinds of math, like how to count and arrange things (called combinatorics). She also connects her work to other math topics, like understanding patterns and systems. Today, she is a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna.

Her Journey in Mathematics

Ilse Fischer was born in a city called Klagenfurt. She started her studies at the University of Vienna in 1993. She worked very hard and earned several important degrees there.

First, she got her master's degree in 1998. Then, she earned her doctorate degree in 2000. This is like getting the highest degree you can in a subject. Her special project for her doctorate was about counting patterns, like how to tile shapes with diamonds.

Later, in 2006, she completed her "habilitation." This is a special qualification in some European countries that allows a person to teach as a full professor at a university. Her work for this was about counting different kinds of mathematical patterns using a special method.

Teaching and Research Career

From 1999 to 2004, Ilse Fischer worked as an assistant at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. During this time, she also spent a year doing research after her doctorate. This was at a famous university in the United States, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2001.

In 2004, she moved back to the University of Vienna. She continued her research and teaching there. She became an associate professor in 2011. Then, in 2017, she was promoted to a full professor. This means she is now a leading expert in her field at the university.

Awards and Achievements

Ilse Fischer has received several important awards for her work in mathematics.

In 2006, she won the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Prize. A few years later, in 2009, she received the Start-Preis from the Austrian Science Fund. This award helps young researchers with their projects.

In 2019, Ilse Fischer won a very special award called the David P. Robbins Prize. She shared this prize with two other mathematicians, Roger Behrend and Matjaž Konvalinka. They won it for their joint research on "alternating sign matrices." These are special patterns of numbers that mathematicians study.