Anna Katharina Wienhard (born 1977) [1] is a German mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry, and especially the use of higher Teichmüller spaces to study the deformation theory of symmetric geometric structures. [1] She is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. [2]
Wienhard did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn, earning a double degree in theology and mathematics. [1] Continuing at Bonn, she earned a doctorate in 2004 under the joint supervision of Hans Werner Ballmann and Marc Burger. [3]
After holding temporary positions at the University of Basel, Institute for Advanced Study, and University of Chicago, she took a faculty position at Princeton University in 2007. She moved to Heidelberg as a full professor in 2012 [4] and to Leipzig as a research director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences [2] in 2022.
From 2009 to 2013, Wienhard was a member of the Young Academy of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. [4] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [5] She was elected as a regular member of the Leopoldina in 2023. [6]
She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2012, [7] and an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. [8] She was named MSRI Clay Senior Scholar for Fall 2019. [9]