Kathrin Bringmann (born 8 May 1977) is a German number theorist in the

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, who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of

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Education and career

Kathrin Bringmann was born on 8 May 1977, in Muenster, Germany. She passed the State Examinations in Mathematics and Theology at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

, Germany, in 2002, and obtained a Diploma in Mathematics at Würzburg in 2003. She received PhD in 2004 from

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under the supervision of . During 2004–07, she was Edward Burr Van Vleck Assistant Professor with the

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where she began her collaboration with

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. After briefly serving as an assistant professor at the

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, she joined the

, Germany, as Professor.

Recognition

Bringmann has been awarded the Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis for Young Professors, a one-million-Euro prize instituted by the

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. She is the third mathematician to win this prize. She has also been awarded the

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in 2009 for her contributions to "areas of mathematics influenced by the genius

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." She was the

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Lecturer of the

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in 2015. A book by Bringmann with

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, and Larry Rolen, ''Harmonic Maass Forms and Mock Modular Forms: Theory and Applications'' (Amer. Math. Soc., 2018), won the 2018

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for Best Scholarly Book in Mathematics from the

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