Ursula Hamenstädt (born 15 January 1961) is a German mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Bonn.
Hamenstädt earned her PhD from the University of Bonn in 1986, under the supervision of Wilhelm Klingenberg.
[2] After completing her doctorate, she became a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and then an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology before returning to Bonn as a faculty member in 1990.
[1] Hamenstädt was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.
[3] In 2012 she was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[4] and in the same year she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.