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Vera Fischer (mathematician)

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Vera V. Fischer is an Austrian mathematician specializing in set theory, mathematical logic, and infinitary combinatorics. She is a privatdozent in the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic at the University of Vienna.[1]

Education and career

Fischer completed her doctorate in 2008 at York University in Canada. Her dissertation, The Consistency of Arbitrarily Large Spread between the Bounding and the Splitting Numbers, was supervised by Juris Steprāns.[2]

Before joining the Kurt Gödel Research Center, she worked at TU Wien from 2014 to 2015, where she led a project under the Lise Meitner Programme of the Austrian Science Fund.[3]

Recognition

In 2017, Fischer won the Start-Preis of the Austrian Science Fund.[4] In 2018, she won the Promotion Prize for Young Scientists and Inziger Medal of the Austrian Mathematical Society.[5]

References

  1. ^ Members, Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, retrieved 2018-12-10
  2. ^ Vera Fischer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Former members, Set Theory Group, TU Wien, retrieved 2018-12-10
  4. ^ START-Preis für Vera Fischer vom Kurt Gödel Research Center, University of Vienna, June 19, 2017, retrieved 2018-12-10
  5. ^ ÖMG Förderungs-Aktionen, Austrian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-12-10