Karin Baur | |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Workplaces: | University of Leeds University of Graz ETH Zurich University of California, San Diego University of Leicester |
Alma Mater: | University of Basel (PhD) |
Doctoral Advisor: | Hanspeter Kraft |
Karin Baur is a Swiss mathematician who is working in the mathematical fields algebra, representation theory, cluster algebras, cluster categories, combinatorics, Lie algebras. Currently she is a professor at University of Leeds[1] and she also a full professor at University of Graz.[2] From 2007 - 2012 she has been an assistant professor (SNSF professor) at ETH Zurich.[3] Moreover, she is one of the protagonists of the project Women of Mathematics throughout Europe.[4]
In 2018 Baur was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship for her work on Surface categories and mutation.[5]
For her project Orbit Structures in Representation Spaces, she won an SNSF Professorship in 2007.