Andrea Walther (born 1970) is a German applied mathematician whose research interests include

nonlinear optimization In mathematics, nonlinear programming (NLP) is the process of solving an optimization problem where some of the constraints are not linear equalities or the objective function is not a linear function. An optimization problem is one of calculation ...

, non-smooth optimization, and

scientific computing Computational science, also known as scientific computing, technical computing or scientific computation (SC), is a division of science, and more specifically the Computer Sciences, which uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and s ...

, and who is known in particular for her work on

automatic differentiation In mathematics and computer algebra, automatic differentiation (auto-differentiation, autodiff, or AD), also called algorithmic differentiation, computational differentiation, and differentiation arithmetic Hend Dawood and Nefertiti Megahed (2023) ...

. She is professor of mathematical optimization in the institute for mathematics of

Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

Education and career

After studying business mathematics at the

University of Bayreuth The University of Bayreuth (German: Universität Bayreuth) is a public research university located in Bayreuth, Germany. It is one of the youngest German universities. It is broadly organized into seven undergraduate and graduate faculties, with ...

beginning in 1991 and earning a diploma in 1996, Walther completed a doctorate at the

Dresden University of Technology TU Dresden (for , abbreviated as TUD), also as the Dresden University of Technology, is a public research university in Dresden, Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony a ...

in 1999. Her dissertation, ''Program Reversal Schedules for Single-and Multi-processor Machines'', was supervised by . She completed a

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

at the Dresden University of Technology in 2008. She worked as a research assistant and junior professor at the Dresden University of Technology from 2000 to 2008. In 2009, she took a professorship at

Paderborn University Paderborn University () is a public research university in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter semester 2016/2017 in 62 different degree programmes. ...

, and in 2019 she moved to her present position at Humboldt University. Since 2020 she has been convenor of European Women in Mathematics.

Book

With her advisor Andreas Griewank, Walther is the coauthor of the second edition of the book ''Evaluating derivatives: principles and techniques of algorithmic differentiation'' (

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...

, 2008).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walther, Andrea 1970 births Living people 21st-century German mathematicians 21st-century German women mathematicians University of Bayreuth alumni TU Dresden alumni Academic staff of TU Dresden Academic staff of Paderborn University Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin