Katrin Leschke

Katrin Leschke (born 1968)[1] is a German mathematician specialising in differential geometry and known for her work on quaternionic analysis and Willmore surfaces. She works in England as a reader in mathematics at the University of Leicester,[2] where she also heads the "Maths Meets Arts Tiger Team", an interdisciplinary group for the popularisation of mathematics,[3] and led the "m:iv" project of international collaboration on minimal surfaces.[4]

Education and career

Leschke did her undergraduate studies at Technische Universität Berlin, and continued there for a PhD,[2] which she completed in 1997. Her dissertation, Homogeneity and Canonical Connections of Isoparametric Manifolds, was jointly supervised by Dirk Ferus and Ulrich Pinkall.[5]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin from 1997 to 2002, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2002 to 2005, and a researcher and temporary associate professor at the University of Augsburg from 2005 to 2007.[6] At Augsburg, she completed her habilitation,[2] working in the group of Katrin Wendland.[7] She joined the University of Leicester as New Blood Lecturer in 2007 and became reader there in 2016.[6]

Book

Leschke is a coauthor of the book Conformal Geometry of Surfaces in and Quaternions (Springer, 2002), developing the theory of quaternionic analysis.[8]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2020-11-20
  2. ^ a b c "Katrin Leschke", Staff profiles, University of Leicester, retrieved 2020-11-20
  3. ^ Maths Meets Arts Tiger Team, University of Leicester, retrieved 2020-11-20
  4. ^ About us: minimal surfaces: integrable systems and visualisation, University of Leicester, retrieved 2020-11-20
  5. ^ Katrin Leschke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ a b LMS elections to council and nominating committee 2017: Candidate biographies (PDF), London Mathematical Society, retrieved 2020-11-20
  7. ^ Wendland, Katrin, Supervision, University of Freiburg, retrieved 2020-11-20
  8. ^ Reviews of Conformal Geometry of Surfaces in and Quaternions: Cornelia-Livia Bejan, Zbl 1033.53001; Udo Hertrich-Jeromin (2004), MR1887131