Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.

Biography

Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII. She wrote her dissertation on ''Singularites rationnelles et groupes algebriques'' (Rational singularities and algebraic groups) under the direction of Lê Dũng Tráng. She did her habilitation at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

in 1985, and pursued her studies at the

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

. Afterwards, she was a Heisenberg scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. She became the first Einstein Professor at

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

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 University of Paris VII. In 2007 Esnault was editor-in-chief and founder of the journal

Algebra & Number Theory ''Algebra & Number Theory'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by the nonprofit organization Mathematical Sciences Publishers. It was launched on January 17, 2007, with the goal of "providing an alternative to the current range of com ...

. From 1998 to 2010 she co-edited Mathematische Annalen; she has also served as editor of Acta Mathematica Vietnamica,

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, Duke Mathematical Journal, and Mathematical Research Letters.

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 Eckart Viehweg (born 30 December 1948 in Zwickau, died 29 January 2010) was a German mathematician. He was a professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2003 he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize with his wife, ...

received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. In 2014 she was elected to the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

and is a member of the

Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the . In 2019, she won the Cantor medal.

References

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Book: ''Hélène Esnault, Eckart Viehweg'': "Lectures on Vanishing Theorems" (PDF, 1.3 MB)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Esnault, Helene 1953 births Living people École Normale Supérieure alumni Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians French women mathematicians Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Members of Academia Europaea 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet laureates Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 20th-century French women European Research Council grantees