Angela Kunoth (born 22 June 1963) is a German mathematician specializing in the

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...

s. She is a professor of mathematics at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

, and the editor-in-chief of ''

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''.

Education and career

Kunoth studied mathematics at

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University () is a public university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the e ...

beginning in 1982, and earned a diploma there in 1990. After visiting the

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as a

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, she completed a doctorate (

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) at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Multilevel Preconditioning'', was supervised by Wolfgang Dahmen. After research positions at

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in Norway, at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin, at

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, and at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

, she became an associate professor at the

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in 1999, and earned a

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through RWTH Aachen in 2000 with the habilitation thesis ''Wavelet Methods for Minimization Problems Involving Elliptic Partial Differential Equations''. She moved to

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. ...

as a full professor and chair of complex systems in 2007, and at Paderborn served as director of the mathematical institute and vice-dean of the faculty for electrotechnics from 2010 to 2012. She moved again to the University of Cologne as professor and chair for applied mathematics in 2013. Kunoth was elected to the 2023 Class of

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Fellows.

Book

Kunoth is the author of the monograph ''Wavelet Methods — Elliptic Boundary Value Problems and Control Problems'' (Springer, 2001), a book version of her habilitation thesis.

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