Asma Hassannezhad is an Iranian mathematician whose research concerns

geometric analysis Geometric analysis is a mathematical discipline where tools from differential equations, especially elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), are used to establish new results in differential geometry and differential topology. The use of ...

spectral geometry Spectral geometry is a field in mathematics which concerns relationships between geometric structures of manifolds and spectra of canonically defined differential operators. The case of the Laplace–Beltrami operator on a closed Riemannian m ...

, and differential geometry. She is a lecturer in pure mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

, where she is also a member of the Institute of Probability, Analysis and Dynamics and the Institute of Pure Mathematics.

Education

Hassannezhad has a bachelor's and master's degree from

Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering ...

in Iran. She completed her Ph.D. in 2012, jointly through Sharif University, the

University of Neuchâtel The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and eco ...

in Switzerland, and the

University of Tours The University of Tours (french: Université de Tours), formerly François Rabelais University of Tours (french: Université François Rabelais), is a public university in Tours, France. Founded in 1969, the university was formerly named after th ...

in France. Her dissertation, '' Bornes supérieures pour les valeurs propres d'opérateurs naturels sur Les variétés riemanniennes compactes'', was jointly supervised by Bruno Colbois of Neuchâtel, Ahmad El Soufi of Tours, and Alireza Ranjbar-Motlagh of Sharif.

Recognition

Hassannezhad was the 2022 winner of the

Anne Bennett Prize The Anne Bennett Prize and Senior Anne Bennett Prize are awards given by the London Mathematical Society. In every third year, the society offers the Senior Anne Bennett prize to a mathematician normally based in the United Kingdom for work in, i ...

"for her outstanding work in spectral geometry and her substantial contributions toward the advancement of women in mathematics".

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