Ulrike Tillmann


Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, who has made important contributions to the study of the moduli space of algebraic curves. She is titular Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

Education

Tillmann completed her abitur at :de:Gymnasium Georgianum |Gymnasium Georgianum in Vreden. She received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1985 and M.A. from Stanford University in 1987. She read for a PhD under the supervision of Ralph Cohen at Stanford University, and was awarded her degree in 1990. She was awarded Habilitation in 1996 from the University of Bonn.

Awards and honours

In 2004 she was awarded the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008 and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013. In 2017, she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Tillmann was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2009.

Personal life

Tillmann's parents are Ewald and Marie-Luise Tillmann. In 1995 she married Jonathan Morris with whom she has had three daughters.

Publications

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