Burchard earned a diploma in mathematics (the German equivalent of a master's degree) in 1989 from Heidelberg University, with research supervised by Willi Jäger on mathematical modeling of chemical reactions.[2] She shifted to pure mathematics for her doctoral work on the Riesz rearrangement inequality at Georgia Tech, supervised by Michael Loss, completing her Ph.D. in 1994.[2][3]
She was a faculty member in the Princeton University department of mathematics from 1994 to 1998, and at the University of Virginia from 1998 to 2005. She has held her present position at the University of Toronto since 2005.[2][4]
Recognition
In 2021, the Fields Institute listed Burchard as a Fellow, recognizing her "energetic support" of the Fields Institute's, in helping develop an online program on fluid dynamics, and in mentorship of undergraduates.[5]
References
^"Almut Burchard", Faculty Directory, University of Toronto Department of Mathematics, 26 February 2018, retrieved 2024-04-27