Wienhard Anna

Wienhard is the director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, an honorary professor at the University of Leipzig, and scientific chair of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation. Her mathematical scientific interests focus on geometry, group theory, and dynamics, and on the application of geometric methods in other sciences. Her career led her to Switzerland (ETH Zurich, Basel University) and the USA (IAS Princeton, University of Chicago, Princeton University, Caltech, MSRI/SLMath). As a professor at Heidelberg University and a group leader at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies she was co-spokesperson of the Excellence Cluster STRUCTURES, and founding director of the Research Station Geometry and Dynamics. Among her honours are two ERC grants and the Hector Science Award 2022. She gave invited addresses at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018, and the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) in 2016, and a plenary address at the ECM in 2024. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, member of the Heidelberg and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academies of Science (Leopoldina), and the European Academy of Sciences.