Barbara Kaltenbacher


Barbara Kaltenbacher is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns inverse problems, regularization, and constrained optimization, with applications including the mathematical modeling of piezoelectricity and nonlinear acoustics. She is a Professor of Applied Analysis at the University of Klagenfurt, the president of the Austrian Mathematical Society, and the co-editor in chief of the Journal of the European Mathematical Society.

Education and career

Kaltenbacher studied mathematics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, earning a diploma in 1993 and a doctorate in 1996. Her dissertation, Some Newton type methods for the regularization of nonlinear ill-posed problems, was supervised by Heinz Engl. She remained as a researcher in Linz until 2001. After taking temporary positions at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, University of Göttingen, and University of Linz, she became a professor at the University of Stuttgart in 2006. She moved to the University of Graz in 2010, and to her present position in Klagenfurt in 2011.

Books

Kaltenbacher is the co-author of: