Katrin Wehrheim

Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department. Her research centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory. She is well known for her work on pseudoholomorphic quilts. She attended graduate school at ETH Zürich; her PhD thesis in mathematics won the ETH medal in 2002. She was an instructor at Princeton University and member of the Institute for Advanced Study before taking a tenure track position at MIT.

In 2010 she received the Presidential Career Award PECASE from Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.^[1] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[2]

Early life

After attending school in Hamburg^[3] and studying at the University of Hamburg until 1995 and Imperial College until 1996,^[4] Wehrheim completed her PhD at ETH Zürich in 2002.

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^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.
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