Lilian Matthiesen

Lilian Matthiesen (born 1984)^[1] is a mathematician whose research involves analytic number theory including the application of Fourier analysis to Diophantine geometry.^[2] Educated in England, she has worked in France, Germany, and Sweden, and is University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany.^[3]

Education and career

Matthiesen earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England in 2012, with the dissertation Applications of the nilpotent Hardy–Littlewood method supervised by Ben Green.^[4]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Bristol, and in France at Paris-Sud University and the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche, she became an assistant professor at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany in 2015. She moved to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2016,^[1] and became an associate professor there,^[5] before taking a position as University Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Göttingen in Germany.^[3]

Recognition

Matthiesen was the 2020 recipient of the Göran Gustafsson Prize,^[1] a 2023 recipient of the Wallenberg Prize of the Swedish Mathematical Society,^[6] and the 2024 recipient of the Tage Erlander Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.^[2]