Gerlind Plonka
German applied mathematician
About Gerlind Plonka
Born 1966. Gerlind Plonka is a German mathematician, university teacher and applied mathematician.
Gerlind Plonka-Hoch is a German applied mathematician specializing in signal processing and image processing, and known for her work on refinable functions and curvelets. She is a professor at the University of Göttingen, in the Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics.
Plonka earned her Ph.D. from the University of Rostock in 1993. Her dissertation, Periodische Lagrange- und Hermite-Spline-Interpolation, concerned polynomial interpolation using Lagrange polynomials and Hermite splines, and was supervised by Manfred Tasche.
She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2016.
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