Tanya Christiansen

Tanya Julie Christiansen is an American mathematician who works in scattering theory and the theory of partial differential equations.[1] She is Luther Marion Defoe Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri.[2]

Education and career

Christiansen graduated summa cum laude in 1989 from Rice University, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Scattering Theory on Compact Manifolds with Boundary, was supervised by Richard Burt Melrose.[4]

After postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, she joined the University of Missouri faculty in 1995.[3] She became Defoe Distinguished Professor in 2019.[2]

References
  1. "Tanya Christiansen, Professor", University of Missouri Mathematics People, retrieved 2019-09-07
  2. Faculty honors, University of Missouri Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2019-09-07
  3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2019-09-07
  4. Tanya Christiansen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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