Barbara Kaltenbacher is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns

inverse problem An inverse problem in science is the process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them: for example, calculating an image in X-ray computed tomography, sound source reconstruction, source reconstruction in ac ...

regularization Regularization may refer to: * Regularization (linguistics) * Regularization (mathematics) * Regularization (physics) * Regularization (solid modeling) * Regularization Law, an Israeli law intended to retroactively legalize settlements See also ...

, and

PDE-constrained optimization PDE-constrained optimization is a subset of mathematical optimization where at least one of the constraints may be expressed as a partial differential equation. Typical domains where these problems arise include aerodynamics, computational fluid dy ...

, with applications including the mathematical modeling of

piezoelectricity Piezoelectricity (, ) is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress. The piezoel ...

and

nonlinear acoustics Nonlinear acoustics (NLA) is a branch of physics and acoustics dealing with sound waves of sufficiently large amplitudes. Large amplitudes require using full systems of governing equations of fluid dynamics (for sound waves in liquids and gases) ...

. She is a professor of Applied Analysis at the

University of Klagenfurt The University of Klagenfurt ( or ''Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt'', AAU) is a federal Austrian research university and the largest research and higher education institution in the States of Austria, state of Carinthia. It has its campus in ...

, a member of the executive committee of the European Mathematical Society and was editor in chief of the ''

Journal of the European Mathematical Society '' Journal of the European Mathematical Society'' is a monthly peer-reviewed mathematical journal. Founded in 1999, the journal publishes articles on all areas of pure and applied mathematics. Most published articles are original research articl ...

''.. Barbara Kaltenbacher has published more than 130 scientific papers and is (co-)author of four monographs.

Education and career

Kaltenbacher studied mathematics at

Johannes Kepler University Linz The Johannes Kepler University Linz (German: ''Johannes Kepler Universität Linz'', short: ''JKU'') is a public university in Austria. It is located in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. It offers bachelor's, master's, diploma and doctoral degre ...

, earning a diploma in 1993 and a doctorate in 1996. Her dissertation, ''Some Newton type methods for the regularization of nonlinear ill-posed problems'', was supervised by Heinz Engl. She was head of a Hertha Firnberg Project funded by the

Austrian Science Fund The Austrian Science Fund () is the most important Austrian funding organization for basic research. The FWF supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities through a large variety of grant programmes, prizes and by funding infrastru ...

FWF 1999-2001 and an

Emmy Noether Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's theorem, Noether's first and Noether's second theorem, second theorems, which ...

Junior Research group funded by the

German Research Foundation The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bud ...

DFG 2003–2006. After taking temporary professor positions at the

University of Erlangen–Nuremberg The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (, FAU) is a Public University, public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. The name Friedrich-Alexander is derived from the university's first ...

, and the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...

, she became a professor of Optimization at the

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart () is a research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany with programs in civil, mechanical, ind ...

in 2006. She moved to the

University of Graz The University of Graz (, formerly: ''Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz'') is a public university, public research university located in Graz, Austria. It is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-old ...

in 2010 as a professor of Applied Mathematics, and to her present position in Klagenfurt in 2011. Barbara Kaltenbacher was president of the

Austrian Mathematical Society The Austrian Mathematical Society () is the national mathematical society of Austria and a member society of the European Mathematical Society. History The society was founded in 1903 by Ludwig Boltzmann, Gustav von Escherich, and Emil Müller ...

, 2018–2021, chair of the scientific advisory board of the Weierstrass Institute, 2015–2021, and was elected as a corresponding member of the

Austrian Academy of Sciences The Austrian Academy of Sciences (; ÖAW) is a legal entity under the special protection of the Republic of Austria. According to the statutes of the Academy its mission is to promote the sciences and humanities in every respect and in every fi ...

, in 2021.

Books

Barbara Kaltenbacher is (co-)author of: *''Iterative Regularization Methods for Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems'' (with Andreas Neubauer and Otmar Scherzer, de Gruyter, 2008) *''Regularization Methods in Banach Spaces'' (with Thomas Schuster, Bernd Hofmann, and Kamil S. Kazimierskide, Gruyter, 2012) *''Mathematical Theory of Evolutionary Fluid-Flow Structure Interactions'' (with Igor Kukavica, Irena Lasiecka, Roberto Triggiani, Amjad Tuffaha, and Justin T. Webster, Birkhäuser, 2018) *''Inverse Problems for Fractional Partial Differential Equations'' (with William Rundell). AMS, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 2023

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