Hélène Esnault
Hélène Esnault (born 1953 in Paris) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. She received her PhD in 1976 under Professor Lê Dũng Tráng, writing her dissertation on Singularites rationnelles et groupes algebriques (Rational singularities and algebraic groups).[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII and did her habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1985. studied mathematics at the university of Essen. Afterwards, she was a Heisenberg scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.[2]
Career[edit]
She became the first Einstein Professor at Freie Universität Berlin in 2012, as head of thealgebra and number theory research group. after working previously at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, and at the University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.[3]
Awards and honors[edit]
In 2001 she won the Prix Paul Doisteau-Émile Blutet of the Académie des Sciences de Paris. In 2003, Esnault and her husband Prof. Dr. Eckart Viehweg became the first married couple to receive a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for joint scientific work.[4] n 2014 she was elected to the Academia Europaea[5] and is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Europäische Akademie Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 2019, she won the Cantor medal.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "Hélène Esnault - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Leibniz Award winner of the University of Duisburg-Essen". www.uni-due.de. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ Esnault, Hélène. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ "Leibniz Award winner of the University of Duisburg-Essen". www.uni-due.de. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ Member profile: Hélène Esnault, Academia Europaea, retrieved 22 September 2015
- ^ "Cantor-Medaille 2019 für die Mathematikerin Hélène Esnault".
External links[edit]
- Hélène Esnault in the German National Library catalogue
- Homepage
- Book: Hélène Esnault, Eckart Viehweg: "Lectures on Vanishing Theorems" (PDF, 1.3 MB)
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