Barbara Kaltenbacher is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns inverse problems, regularization, and PDE-constrained optimization, with applications including the mathematical modeling of piezoelectricity and nonlinear acoustics.
Barbara Kaltenbacher has published more than 130 scientific papers and is (co-)author of four monographs.
Kaltenbacher studied mathematics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, earning a diploma in 1993 and a doctorate in 1996.
[2] Her dissertation, Some Newton type methods for the regularization of nonlinear ill-posed problems, was supervised by Heinz Engl.
She moved to the University of Graz in 2010 as a professor of Applied Mathematics, and to her present position in Klagenfurt in 2011.