Christine Böckmann (née Hense, born 1955) is a German applied mathematician, numerical analyst, and expert on atmospheric lidar.
She is an außerplanmäßiger Professor of mathematics at the University of Potsdam,[1] and one of the Principal Investigators of EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network.
[2] Böckmann studied mathematics at the Dresden University of Technology, earning a diploma in 1980 and completing her doctorate (Dr. rer.
[1] Her dissertation, Ein ableitungsfreies Verfahren vom Gauß-Newton-Typ zur Lösung von nichtlinearen Quadratmittelproblemen mit separierten Variablen, was supervised by Hubert Schwetlick.
[3] She subsequently completed a habilitation at the University of Potsdam.