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Katrin Wehrheim
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Wehrheim at Berkeley, California 2013
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| Born | 1974 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | ETH Zürich |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Anti-self-dual instantons with Lagrangian boundary conditions (2002) |
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Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974) is a talented mathematician from Germany. She is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Wehrheim studies advanced topics in mathematics. Her work focuses on areas like symplectic topology. This field looks at shapes and spaces in a special way. She is also known for her work on "pseudoholomorphic quilts." These are complex mathematical tools.
Education and Career
Katrin Wehrheim went to school in Hamburg, Germany. She studied at the University of Hamburg until 1995. Then she continued her studies at Imperial College in London until 1996. After that, she moved to ETH Zürich in Switzerland for her graduate studies.
While studying, she almost decided to become an Olympic rower instead! But she chose to continue with mathematics. She earned her PhD in 2002. Her main teachers for her PhD were Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon.
After finishing her PhD, Professor Wehrheim worked at Princeton University. She was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2005, she started teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at MIT, she helped lead a conference in 2008. This event celebrated women in mathematics. Since 2013, she has been teaching mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards and Honors
Katrin Wehrheim has received many important awards for her work. Her PhD paper was called Anti-Self-Dual Instantons with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions. It won the ETH medal in 2002. This is a special award from her university.
In 2010, she received a very important award called the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This award was given to her by President Barack Obama. She received it at a ceremony at the White House.
In 2012, Professor Wehrheim became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. This means she is recognized as a leading expert in mathematics.
