Katrin Wehrheim
Katrin Wehrheim is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory. She is known for her work on pseudoholomorphic quilts. With Dusa McDuff, she has challenged the foundational rigor of a classic proof in symplectic geometry.Education and career
After attending school in Hamburg and studying at the University of Hamburg until 1995 and Imperial College until 1996, Wehrheim went to ETH Zürich for graduate studies. After almost dropping out to become an Olympic rower, Wehrheim completed her PhD in 2002, under the joint supervision of Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon.
She was an instructor at Princeton University and member of the Institute for Advanced Study before taking a tenure track position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. Since 2013, Wehrheim has been teaching mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.Awards and honors
Her PhD thesis in mathematics Anti-Self-Dual Instantons with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions won the 2002 ETH medal. In 2010 she received the Presidential Career Award PECASE from Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
