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1.24 Millions for Cologne Mathematician

June 25th, 2013

Cologne mathematician Prof. Dr. Kathrin Bringmann has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) starting grant. The scientist will be receiving funding of 1.24 million Euros for a research project on number theory over a period of five years. Kathrin Bringmann is thereby the fifth University of Cologne scientist to receive the ERC grant.

The research project of Kathrin Bringmann is looking at solving conundrums that lie at an interface between number theory and other areas of mathematics and physics. The scientist is especially interested in determining which of the so-called q-series exhibit special symmetries. This can be applied to combinatorics, percolation, Lie theory and black holes.

Kathrin Bringmann studied mathematics in Würzburg and did her PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 2004. She was assistant professor from 2004-2007 at the University of Wisconsin, and then at the University of Minnesota. In 2008, she accepted a professorship at the University of Cologne. Bringmann received the Alfried Krupp Förderpreis as well as the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in the 2009.

Provided by University of Cologne

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