Lilian Matthiesen (born 1984)[1] is a mathematician whose research involves analytic number theory including the application of Fourier analysis to Diophantine geometry.
[2] Educated in England, she has worked in France, Germany, and Sweden, and is University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany.
[3] Matthiesen earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England in 2012, with the dissertation Applications of the nilpotent Hardy–Littlewood method supervised by Ben Green.
[4] After postdoctoral research at the University of Bristol, and in France at Paris-Sud University and the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche, she became an assistant professor at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany in 2015.
She moved to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2016,[1] and became an associate professor there,[5] before taking a position as University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany.