Ulrike Tillmann

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Ulrike Tillmann
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Born (1962-12-12) December 12, 1962 (age 61)
Rhede, Germany
Alma mater Brandeis University
Stanford University
Bonn University
Doctoral advisor Ralph Cohen
Doctoral students <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Paul Higgins
  • Paolo Salvatore
  • Paul Mitchener
  • Nathalie Wahl
  • Catarina Carvalho
  • Jeffrey Giansiracusa
  • Elizabeth Hanbury
  • Graham Hope
  • Oscar Randal-Williams
  • Georgios Raptis
  • Martin Palmer
Notable awards Whitehead Prize (2004)

Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS (born 12 December 1962) is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, who has made important contributions to the study of the moduli space of algebraic curves. She is titular Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College.[1][2]

Biography

She received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1985 and M.A. from Stanford University in 1987. She read for a PhD under the supervision of Ralph Cohen at the Stanford University and was awarded her degree in 1990.[1][3] She was awarded Habilitation in 1996 from Bonn University.[2]

In 2004 she was awarded the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society.[4]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008[5] and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.[6]

Personal life

Tillmann's parents are Ewald and Marie-Luise Tillmann. In 1995 she married Jonathan Morris with whom she has had three daughters.[2]

References

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  3. Ulrike Tillmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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