Ursula van Rienen

Ursula van Rienen (born 1957)[1] is a German applied mathematician and physicist whose research involves computational electrodynamics, the computational simulation of interactions between electromagnetic fields and biological tissue, and its applications in electrical brain stimulation.

[3] In 1989 she defended a doctoral thesis through the Technische Universität Darmstadt, titled Zur numerischen Berechnung zeitharmonischer elektromagntischer Felder in offenen, zylindersymetrischen Strukturen unter Verwendung von Mehrgitterverfahren [On the numerical calculation of time-harmonic electromagnetic fields in open, cylindrically symmetrical structures using multi-grid methods], supervised by Willi Törnig [de].

[3][4] Beginning in 1990, she worked as a research assistant at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and then a lecturer in 1995.

In 1997 she completed a habilitation there, and in the same year took her current position as a professor at the University of Rostock.

[3] Van Rienen published her habilitation thesis as the book Numerical Methods in Computational Electrodynamics: Linear Systems in Practical Applications (Springer, 2001).