Ilse Fischer (born 29 June 1975) is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns enumerative combinatorics and

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, connecting these topics to representation theory and

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. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna.

Education and career

Fischer was born in Klagenfurt. She studied at the University of Vienna beginning in 1993, earning a master's degree (mag. rer. nat.), 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 ...

), and

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 ...

there respectively in 1998, 2000, and 2006. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Enumeration of perfect matchings: Rhombus tilings and Pfaffian graphs'', was jointly supervised by

Christian Krattenthaler Christian Friedrich Krattenthaler (born 8 October 1958 in Vienna) is an Austrian mathematician. He is a professor of discrete mathematics (with a focus on combinatorics). From 2016 to 2020 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the ...

and Franz Rendl, and her habilitation thesis was ''A polynomial method for the enumeration of plane partitions and alternating sign matrices''. She worked as an assistant at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt from 1999 to 2004, with a year of postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. She moved to the University of Vienna in 2004, and at Vienna she was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and to full professor in 2017.

Recognition

Fischer won the 2006 Dr. Maria Schaumayer Prize, and the 2009

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of the

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. With Roger Behrend and Matjaž Konvalinka, Fischer is a winner of the 2019

David P. Robbins Prize The David P. Robbins Prize for papers reporting novel research in algebra, combinatorics, or discrete mathematics is awarded both by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The AMS award reco ...

of the American Mathematical Society and

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, for their joint research on alternating sign matrices.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fischer, Ilse 1975 births Living people Scientists from Klagenfurt Austrian mathematicians Women mathematicians Combinatorialists University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Vienna