Almut Burchard is a mathematician whose research interests include functional analysis, probability theory, and their applications in network calculus for the stochastic analysis of communication networks.
Educated in Germany and the US, she has worked in the US and Canada, where she is a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto.
[1] 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][4] 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.