Ina Kersten (born 1946)[1] is a German mathematician and former president of the German Mathematical Society. Her research concerns abstract algebra including the theory of field extensions and algebraic groups.[2] She is a professor emerita at the University of Göttingen.
Kersten was born in Hamburg,[2] and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg in 1977. Her dissertation, p-Algebren über semilokalen Ringen, was supervised by Ernst Witt.[3] She completed a habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1983.[4]
Kersten was president of the German Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1997,[2] which meant she was the first woman to head the society.[5] Under her leadership, the society founded the journal Documenta Mathematica.[6]
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