Anna Wienhard#
| Membership Number: | 7156 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mis.mpg.de/people/anna-wienhard |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2022 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
- 2020 - 2022 Director of the Research Station Geometry and Dynamics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
- 2012 - 2022 Chair of Differential Geometry, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
- 2015 - 2022 Group Leader, Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg
- since 2013 Associate Member, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg
- 2007 - 2012 Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Princeton
- 2009 - 2012 Visitor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2005 - 2008 Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago, Chicago
- 2005 - 2006 Member, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Swiss National Science Foundation, Universität Basel, Basel
- 2001 - 2002 Research Associate, SFB 534 “Judaism and Christianity”, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn
Fields of Scholarship
- Higher Teichmüller theory
- Lie groups and their discrete subgroups
- Mathematics
- Differential geometry
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS-UNESCO)
- 2024 Plenary Speaker, European Congress of Mathematicians
- 2022 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2021 ERC Advanced Grant "Positivity in Lie Groups and Representation Varieties"
- 2019 Elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2018 Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians
- 2017 Elected member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Invited Speaker, European Congress of Mathematics
- 2013 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2013 - 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant "Deformation Spaces of Geometric Structures"
