Ulrike Tillmann | |
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Born | Ulrike Luise Tillmann 12 December 1962 Rhede, Germany |
Alma mater |
Brandeis University Stanford University Bonn University |
Doctoral advisor | Ralph Cohen |
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Notable awards | Whitehead Prize (2004) |
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Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS (born 12 December 1962) 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.
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 the Stanford University and was awarded her degree in 1990. She was awarded Habilitation in 1996 from Bonn University.
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.
Tillmann's parents are Ewald and Marie-Luise Tillmann. In 1995 she married Jonathan Morris with whom she has had three daughters.