Katrin Leschke (born 1968)[1] is a German mathematician specialising in differential geometry and known for her work on quaternionic analysis and Willmore surfaces.
She works in England as a reader in mathematics at the University of Leicester,[2] where she also heads the "Maths Meets Arts Tiger Team", an interdisciplinary group for the popularisation of mathematics,[3] and led the "m:iv" project of international collaboration on minimal surfaces.
[4] Leschke did her undergraduate studies at Technische Universität Berlin, and continued there for a PhD,[2] which she completed in 1997.
Her dissertation, Homogeneity and Canonical Connections of Isoparametric Manifolds, was jointly supervised by Dirk Ferus and Ulrich Pinkall.
[5] She was a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin from 1997 to 2002, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2002 to 2005, and a researcher and temporary associate professor at the University of Augsburg from 2005 to 2007.