Christine Böckmann (née Hense, born 1955) is a German

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numerical analyst Numerical may refer to: * Number * Numerical digit * 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 ...

, and expert on atmospheric lidar. She is an '' außerplanmäßiger Professor'' of mathematics at the

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany. The university is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace o ...

, and one of the Principal Investigators of EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network. Böckmann studied mathematics 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 ...

, earning a diploma in 1980 and completing her doctorate (

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) in 1984. Her dissertation, ''Ein ableitungsfreies Verfahren vom Gauß-Newton-Typ zur Lösung von nichtlinearen Quadratmittelproblemen mit separierten Variablen'', was supervised by Hubert Schwetlick. She subsequently completed a

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at the

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