Vera V. Fischer is a mathematician specializing in

set theory Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies Set (mathematics), sets, which can be informally described as collections of objects. Although objects of any kind can be collected into a set, set theory – as a branch of mathema ...

mathematical logic Mathematical logic is the study of Logic#Formal logic, formal logic within mathematics. Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory (also known as computability theory). Research in mathematical logic com ...

, and infinitary combinatorics. She is a

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in the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

Education and career

Fischer completed her doctorate in 2008 at

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

in Canada. Her dissertation, ''The Consistency of Arbitrarily Large Spread between the Bounding and the Splitting Numbers'', was supervised by Juris Steprāns. Before joining the Kurt Gödel Research Center, she worked at

TU Wien TU Wien () is a public research university in Vienna, Austria. The university's teaching and research are focused on engineering, computer science, and natural sciences. It currently has about 28,100 students (29% women), eight faculties, and ...

from 2014 to 2015, where she led a project under the Lise Meitner Programme of 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 ...

Recognition

In 2017, Fischer won the

Start-Preis The Start-Preis is the highest Austrian award for young scientists. It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science. It is endowed with up to 1.2 million Euro for a proposed research project ...

of the Austrian Science Fund. In 2018, she won the

Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society The Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society ({{langx, de, Förderungspreis) is the highest mathematics award in Austria. It is awarded every year by the Austrian Mathematical Society to a promising young mathematician for outstanding achieveme ...

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