Sara Anna van de Geer (born 7 May 1958,

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) is a Dutch

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who is a professor in the department of mathematics at

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.. She is the daughter of psychologist

John P. van de Geer Johannes Petrus "John" van de Geer (21 June 1926, Rotterdam – 9 February 2008, aged 81) was a Dutch psychologist, and Professor of Experimental Psychology at Leiden University, particularly known for his "Introduction to multivariate analysis f ...

Education

She earned a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1987 from Leiden University. Her dissertation, entitled ''Regression Analysis and Empirical Processes'', was supervised by Willem Rutger van Zwet and

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Career

She taught at the

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from 1987 to 1988, at

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from 1989 to 1990, at Leiden University from 1990 to 1997 and 1999 to 2005, and at

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, from 1997 to 1999, before moving to ETH Zurich in September 2005 as Full Professor. There, she has been the first female professor at the Department of Mathematics.

Recognition

She was an

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in 2010 and received the Van Wijngaarden Award in 2016. She is a member of the

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and of the

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, a corresponding member of the

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, and a

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of the

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. She became a member of the

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in 2020. She was president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability for the term 2015–2017. In 2018 she was appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of the

Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (german: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach) is a center for mathematical research in Oberwolfach, Germany. It was founded by mathematician Wilhelm Süss in 1944. It organizes week ...

. In 2022 she was elected as an international member to the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...

(NAS).

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