Jessica Fintzen is a German mathematician whose research concerns the representation theory of algebraic groups over the -adic numbers, with connections to the Langlands program. She is jointly appointed at the

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, and the

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Education and career

Fintzen competed for Germany in the 2008

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, earning a bronze medal, and earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Jacobs University Bremen in 2011. She went to

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for graduate study in mathematics, completing her Ph.D. in 2016. Her dissertation concerned the Moy–Prasad filtration and was supervised by

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, and

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, she became an assistant professor of mathematics at

and was promoted to full professor there in 2022. She has also been Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer at the

since 2020. In 2022 she became a full professor at the

Recognition

Fintzen won the 2018 Friedrich Hirzebruch Dissertation prize of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and Theodor Pfizer Foundation, and the 2018

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Dissertation Prize. She was named as a

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in 2021. In 2022, Fintzen won the

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, "for her groundbreaking work in representation theory, in particular as it relates to number theory via the (local) Langlands program". In 2024, she was awarded the Cole Prize in Algebra.Cole Prize in Algebra 2024
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