Ulrike Tillmann Explained

Ulrike Tillmann
Birth Place:Rhede, Germany
Birth Name:Ulrike Luise Tillmann
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Oxford
Alma Mater:Brandeis University
Stanford University
University of Bonn
Thesis Title:K-Theory of Topological Group Algebras
Thesis Url:https://www.proquest.com/docview/303911678/
Thesis Year:1990
Doctoral Advisor:Ralph Cohen
Spouse:Jonathan Morris
Children:3

Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, who has made important contributions to the study of the moduli space of algebraic curves. She was the president of the London Mathematical Society in the period 2021–2022.

She is titular Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.[1] [2] In 2021 she was appointed Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge, and N.M. Rothschild & Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge, but continued to hold a part-time position at Oxford.

Education

Tillmann completed her Abitur at in Vreden. She received a BA from Brandeis University in 1985, followed by a MA from Stanford University in 1987. She read for a PhD under the supervision of Ralph Cohen at Stanford University, where she was awarded her doctorate in 1990. She was awarded Habilitation in 1996 from the University of Bonn.

Awards and honours

In 2004 she was awarded the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society.[3]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008[4] and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.[5] She has served on the council of the Royal Society and in 2018 was its vice-president.[6] In 2017, she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Tillmann was awarded the Bessel Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2008[7] and was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2009.[8]

She was elected as president-designate of the London Mathematical Society in June 2020 and took over the presidency from Jonathan Keating in November 2021.[9] She was elected to the (EURASC) in 2021.[10] In October 2021 she became the director of the Isaac Newton Institute, taking a post which lasts for five years.

Personal life

Tillmann's parents are Ewald and Marie-Luise Tillmann. In 1995 she married Jonathan Morris with whom she has had three daughters.

Publications

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Who's Who 2009: New Names . . 17 June 2009 .
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  4. Web site: Fellows of the Royal Society. The Royal Society. 2 May 2013.
  5. Web site: List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society. 2 May 2013.
  6. Web site: Ulrike Tillmann . 14 March 2022 . royalsociety.org . Royal Society.
  7. Web site: 4 February 2021 . Professor Ulrike Tillmann named as next Director of the Isaac Newton Institute . 14 March 2022 . Isaac Newton Institute . EN.
  8. Web site: Preise und Auszeichnungen. German Mathematical Society. de. 5 November 2018.
  9. Web site: LMS President Designate Announced London Mathematical Society. 20 August 2020. www.lms.ac.uk.
  10. Web site: Member Profile – Prof. Ulrike Tillmann . European Academy of Sciences . 19 January 2022.