Anna Wienhard

Anna Katharina Wienhard (born 1977)[1] is a German mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry, and especially the use of higher Teichmüller spaces to study the deformation theory of symmetric geometric structures.

[2] Wienhard did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn, earning a double degree in theology and mathematics.

[1] Continuing at Bonn, she earned a doctorate in 2004 under the joint supervision of Hans Werner Ballmann and Marc Burger.

She moved to Heidelberg as a full professor in 2012[4] and to Leipzig as a research director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences[2] in 2022.

[6] She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2012,[7] and an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.