Mina Teicher
Mina Teicher | |
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 Mina Teicher (middle) with Yum-Tong Siu (left) and Jürgen Jost (right), 2008 | |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University |
| Known for | Algebraic geometry, Leadership roles in academia and science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Algebraic geometry |
| Institutions | Bar-Ilan University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro |
Mina Teicher is an Israeli mathematician at Bar-Ilan University, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Teicher earned bachelor's, masters, and doctoral degrees from Tel Aviv University in 1974, 1976, and 1981 respectively.[1] Her dissertation, Birational Transformation Between 4-folds, was supervised by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.[2] Since 1999, she has directed the Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University.[1] In 2001–2002 she was the inaugural Emmy Noether Visiting professor at the University of Göttingen, where she lectured about braid groups.[3]
She has held leadership roles in academia and science,[1] including serving from 2005 to 2007 as chief scientist at Israel's Ministry of Science and Technology,[4] and chairing the board of governors of the United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation from 2012 to 2013.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-07-17
- ^ Mina Teicher at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Emmy Noether Professorship, University of Göttingen, retrieved 2017-07-17
- ^ "New chief scientist appointed: Prof. Mina Teicher is the new chief scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology", Jerusalem Post, 10 October 2005
- ^ Prof. Mina Teicher, United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation, retrieved 2017-07-17
