The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is delighted to learn that Professor Ulrike Tillmann FRS, LMS President-Designate, has been appointed as the next Director of the Isaac Newton Institute (INI). Professor Tillmann will become the seventh Director since the INI opened in 1992, following in the footsteps of Sir Michael Atiyah, Professor Keith Moffatt, Sir John Kingman, Sir David Wallace, Professor John Toland and current Director Professor David Abrahams. Her five-year appointment begins on 1 October 2021.
Professor Tillmann is known for her leading contributions to algebraic topology and for her many contributions to the LMS and the broader mathematical community. Her research interests include Riemann surfaces and the homology of their moduli spaces. Her work on the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and manifolds of higher dimensions has been inspired by problems in quantum physics and string theory. More recently her work has broadened into areas of data science.
She has supported the wider mathematical community both nationally and internationally. This includes as a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and also serving on the scientific boards of several international institutions, including the Oberwolfach Mathematical Research Institute (MFO). Professor Tillmann was also a member of Council of the Royal Society until the end of 2020 and served as an interim Vice-President in 2018.
Professor Tillmann has received several prestigious honours including the LMS Whitehead Prize in 2004. She was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012 and a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2017.
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