Lotte Hollands facts for kids
Lotte Hollands is a smart scientist from the Netherlands, born in 1981. She is a mathematician and a mathematical physicist. This means she uses math to understand how the physical world works. She explores big ideas like quantum field theory, which looks at the smallest particles, and string theory, which suggests tiny vibrating strings make up everything.
She is a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. She also holds a special award called the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. This fellowship helps scientists do important research.
Early Life and Education
Lotte Hollands grew up in a town called Maasbree in the Netherlands.
She went to the University of Amsterdam to study. In 2009, she earned her PhD there. A PhD is the highest degree you can get at a university. For her PhD, she wrote a big paper called Topological Strings and Quantum Curves. Her professor, Robbert Dijkgraaf, helped her with this work.
After her PhD, Lotte went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the United States. There, she did more research with another scientist named Sergei Gukov. This extra research after a PhD is called postdoctoral research.
Her Career in Math
In 2013, Lotte Hollands became a research fellow at the University of Oxford in England. A research fellow is a scientist who focuses mainly on doing research.
Then, in 2015, she became an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University. As an associate professor, she teaches students and continues her important research.
Awards and Recognition
In 2018, a group called the London Mathematical Society gave Lotte Hollands a special award. It was the Anne Bennett Prize. They gave her this prize because of her amazing research. Her work connects quantum theory (the study of very small things) with geometry (the study of shapes and spaces).
The prize also recognized her for being a leader in "mathematical outreach activities." This means she helps share the fun and importance of math with more people, especially those outside of science.
