Andrea Walther (born 1970) is a German applied mathematician whose research interests include

nonlinear optimization In mathematics, nonlinear programming (NLP) is the process of solving an optimization problem where some of the constraints or the objective function are nonlinear. An optimization problem is one of calculation of the extrema (maxima, minima or sta ...

, non-smooth optimization, and

scientific computing Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

, and who is known in particular for her work on

automatic differentiation In mathematics and computer algebra, automatic differentiation (AD), also called algorithmic differentiation, computational differentiation, auto-differentiation, or simply autodiff, is a set of techniques to evaluate the derivative of a function ...

. She is professor of mathematical optimization in the institute for mathematics of

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

Education and career

After studying business mathematics at the

University of Bayreuth A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

beginning in 1991 and earning a diploma in 1996, Walther completed a doctorate at the

Dresden University of Technology TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

in 1999. Her dissertation, ''Program Reversal Schedules for Single-and Multi-processor Machines'', was supervised by . She completed a

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

at the Dresden University of Technology in 2008. She worked as a research assistant and junior professor at the Dresden University of Technology from 2000 to 2008. In 2009, she took a professorship at

Paderborn University Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

, and in 2019 she moved to her present position at Humboldt University. Since 2020 she has been convenor of

European Women in Mathematics European Women in Mathematics (EWM) is an international association of women working in the field of mathematics in Europe. The association participates in political and strategic work to promote the role of women in mathematics and offers its mem ...

Book

With her advisor Andreas Griewank, Walther is the coauthor of the second edition of the book ''Evaluating derivatives: principles and techniques of algorithmic differentiation'' (

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...

, 2008).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walther, Andrea 1970 births Living people 21st-century German mathematicians German women mathematicians University of Bayreuth alumni TU Dresden alumni Academic staff of TU Dresden Academic staff of Paderborn University Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin