Katrin Leschke
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use list-defined references Katrin Leschke (born 1968)Template:R is a German mathematician specialising in differential geometry and known for her work on quaternionic analysis and Willmore surfaces. She works in England as a reader in mathematics at the University of Leicester,Template:R where she also heads the "Maths Meets Arts Tiger Team", an interdisciplinary group for the popularisation of mathematics,Template:R and led the "m:iv" project of international collaboration on minimal surfaces.Template:R
Education and career
Leschke did her undergraduate studies at Technische Universität Berlin, and continued there for a PhD,Template:R which she completed in 1997. Her dissertation, Homogeneity and Canonical Connections of Isoparametric Manifolds, was jointly supervised by Dirk Ferus and Ulrich Pinkall.Template:R
She was a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin from 1997 to 2002, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2002 to 2005, and a researcher and temporary associate professor at the University of Augsburg from 2005 to 2007.Template:R At Augsburg, she completed her habilitation,Template:R working in the group of Katrin Wendland.Template:R She joined the University of Leicester as New Blood Lecturer in 2007 and became reader there in 2016.Template:R
Book
Leschke is a coauthor of the book Conformal Geometry of Surfaces in and Quaternions (Springer, 2002), developing the theory of quaternionic analysis.Template:R