Bettina Eick

Bettina Eick is a German mathematician specializing in computational group theory. She is Professor of Mathematics at the Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig.

Life and education Eick was born on May 16, 1968. She attended the Rheinische-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen from 1987 to 1993. During that time she spent a year at the Queen Mary and Westfield College (currently known as Queen Mary University London).

In 1996, Eick earned her PhD also at RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Neubüser. Her dissertation was entitled Charakterisierung und Konstruktion von Frattinigruppen mit Anwendungen in der Konstruktion endlicher Gruppen (Characterization and Constructions of Frattini Groups with Applications to the Construction of Finite Groups).

Career Eick began her career with postdoctoral positions at RWTH Aachen and the University of Würzburg.

Since 2000, Eick has been a contributor to the "coclass project" that aims to classify groups of prime power order and other nilpotent algebraic objects using coclass as a primary invariant. In 2005, 2011 and 2017 she was a guest scientist at the University of Auckland working with Eamonn O'Brien and funded by the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Eick is a coauthor of the computer algebra system GAP and has been a member of the GAP council since 2001 (chair since 2021).

Selected publications