Hélène Esnault
Hélène Esnault is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. She received her PhD in 1976 under Professor Lê Dũng Tráng, writing her dissertation on Singularites rationnelles et groupes algebriques.Early life and education
Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII and did her habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1985. studied mathematics at the university of Essen. Afterwards, she was a Heisenberg scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.Career
She became the first Einstein Professor at Freie Universität Berlin in 2012, as head of the algebra and number theory research group, after working previously at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, and at the.Awards and honors
In 2001 she won the Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet of the Académie des Sciences de Paris. In 2003, Esnault and Eckart Viehweg
received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. n 2014 she was elected to the Academia Europaea and is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Europäische Akademie Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 2019, she won the Cantor medal.
