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Barbara Niethammer

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Barbara Niethammer (born 1967) is a German mathematician and materials scientist who works as a professor at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn.[1] Her research concerns partial differential equations for physical materials, and in particular the phenomenon of Ostwald ripening by which particles in liquids grow over time.

Education and career

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Niethammer completed her PhD in 1996 at the University of Bonn, under the supervision of Hans Wilhelm Alt. Her dissertation was Approximation of Coarsening Madels by Homogenization of a Stefan Problem.[2]

After postdoctoral research at the Courant Institute, she returned to Bonn for her habilitation in 2002, after which she became in 2003 a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She moved to the University of Oxford in 2007, where she was a fellow of St Edmund Hall. In 2012 she returned as a professor to the University of Bonn.[1]

Recognition

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Niethammer won the Richard von Mises Prize of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik in 2003 for her work on Ostwald ripening,[3] and the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2011 "for her deep and rigorous contributions to material science, especially on the Lifshitz–Slyozov–Wagner and Becker–Doering equations".[4][5]

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Faculty profile, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, retrieved 2016-06-30.
  2. ^ Barbara Niethammer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Richard von Mises Laureates Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine, GAMM, retrieved 2016-06-30.
  4. ^ List of LMS prize winners, retrieved 2016-06-30.
  5. ^ "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 58 (9): 1301, October 2011.
  6. ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897 Archived 2017-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2016-06-30.