Anna Katharina Wienhard

Anna Katharina Wienhard (born 1977) 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.

Education and career Wienhard did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn, earning a double degree in theology and mathematics.

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 and to Leipzig as a research director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences She was elected as a regular member of the Leopoldina in 2023.

She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2012, and an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. She was named MSRI Clay Senior Scholar for Fall 2019.