Hélène Esnault
Hélène Esnault ( born July 17, 1953 in Paris ) is a French mathematician. Since the fall of 2012, she has held the first Einstein Professorship at the Free University of Berlin. Previously, she was Professor of Algebraic Geometry at the University of Duisburg- Essen, Essen, and at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and at the University of Paris VII operates.
Esnault studied from 1973 to the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeune Filles, received her diploma in 1975 (DEA ) at the University of Paris VII, and in 1976 their Agrégation. In 1976, she was there at Le Dung Trang doctorate ( singularités rational et groupes algébriques ). The second part of the French doctorate ( Doctorat d' Etat) followed there in 1984. Additionally, she completed her habilitation in 1985 at the University of Bonn, where she was from 1983 to 1985 visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. 1977 to 1983 she was an assistant at the University of Paris VII and 1989/90 Maître de Conférences. From 1990 she was a professor at the University of Duisburg -Essen.
She has the French and German citizenship.
In 2007, she was the founding editor of the journal Algebra and Number Theory. She was from 1998 to 2010 co-editor of Mathematische Annalen, since 2007 the Mathematical Research Letters, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica since 2011 by astérisque and since 1995 the Duke Mathematical Journal. She is a member of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences (since 2005), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (since 2010) and the Leopoldina ( since 2008).