Ursula Hamenstädt
Ursula Hamenstädt (born 15 January 1961) is a German mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Bonn. Her primary research subject is differential geometry. Education and career Hamenstädt earned her PhD from the University of Bonn in 1986, under the supervision of Wilhelm Klingenberg. Her dissertation, Zur Theorie der Carnot-Caratheodory Metriken und ihren Anwendungen [The theory of Carnot–Caratheodory metrics and their applications], concerned the theory of sub-Riemannian manifolds. After completing her doctorate, she became a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and then an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology before returning to Bonn as a faculty member in 1990. Honors Hamenstädt was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010. In 2012 she was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and in the same year she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2017. Selected publications References External links Home page 1961 births Living people German women mathematicians California Institute of Technology faculty Academic staff of the University of Bonn Fellows of the American Mathematical Society University of Bonn alumni 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Differential geometers 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians 20th-century German women 21st-century German women