Christine Böckmann (née Hense, born 1955) is a German
applied mathematician,
numerical analyst
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods ...
, and expert on
atmospheric lidar
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. She is an ''
außerplanmäßiger Professor'' of mathematics at the
University of Potsdam, and one of the Principal Investigators of EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network.
Böckmann studied mathematics at the
Dresden University of Technology, earning a diploma in 1980 and completing her doctorate (
Dr. rer. nat. ''Doctor rerum naturalium'' ( for, , Latin, doctor of natural sciences, lit. 'doctor of the things of nature'), abbreviated Dr. rer. nat., is a doctoral academic degree awarded by universities in some European countries (e.g. Germany, Austria and C ...
) in 1984. Her dissertation, ''Ein ableitungsfreies Verfahren vom Gauß-Newton-Typ zur Lösung von nichtlinearen Quadratmittelproblemen mit separierten Variablen'', was supervised by Hubert Schwetlick. She subsequently completed a
habilitation
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at the
University of Potsdam.
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1955 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
Numerical analysts
TU Dresden alumni
University of Potsdam faculty
21st-century German mathematicians
20th-century German women
21st-century German women
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