Catherine Meusburger
Catherine Meusburger is an Austrian mathematician and physicist. Her main research interests are in string theory. Since 2011 she has served as professor of mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Meusburger grew up in Heidelberg, where she graduated from Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium; according to her curriculum vitae, she finished with the highest results in the school. She then went on to study physics at the University of Freiburg from 1996 to 2001, where she wrote the thesis The Quantisation of the algebra of invariants of the closed bosonic Nambu–Goto String using a concrete realization, for which she won the Gustav-Mies Prize 2002 for best thesis, and graduated with distinction. Two months later she was at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to work on her PhD in the department of mathematics under Bernd Schroers; her thesis was titled Phase space and quantisation of -dimensional gravity in the Chern–Simons formulation.
Throughout her academic career she has given numerous talks all throughout Europe and at the Perimeter Institute in Canada, where she also did her postdoctoral research from 2004 to 2008.
