Hélène Esnault

Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.

Afterwards, she was a Heisenberg scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

[3] She became the first Einstein Professor at Freie Universität Berlin in 2012, as head of the algebra and number theory research group, after working previously at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, and at the University of Paris VII.

In 2001 she won the Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet of the Académie des Sciences de Paris.

In 2003, Esnault and Eckart Viehweg received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.