Annette Werner (born 1966) is a German mathematician. Her research interests include diophantine geometry and the

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of non-Archimedean ordered fields, including the study of

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, Berkovich spaces, and tropical geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at

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Education and career

Werner earned a diploma in mathematics from the University of Münster in 1991. She earned her Ph.D. at the same university in 1995, jointly supervised by

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and

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; her dissertation was ''Local Heights on Uniformized Abelian Varieties and on Mumford Curves''. She also completed her

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at Münster in 2000. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the

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in Bonn in 1997–1998, and as an assistant at Münster from 1998 to 2003. She became a professor at the University of Siegen in 2004, but in the same year moved to the

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. She has been at the University of Frankfurt since 2007.

Book

Werner is the author of a German-language book on elliptic curve cryptography, ''Elliptische Kurven in der Kryptographie'' (Springer, 2002).

Recognition

Werner was Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in Munich in 2010.

References

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