Lotte Hollands (born 1981) is a Dutch mathematician and

mathematical physicist Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the developmen ...

who studies

quantum field theory In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines classical field theory, special relativity, and quantum mechanics. QFT is used in particle physics to construct physical models of subatomic particles and ...

supersymmetric gauge theory In theoretical physics, there are many theories with supersymmetry (SUSY) which also have internal gauge symmetry, gauge symmetries. Supersymmetric gauge theory generalizes this notion. Gauge theory A gauge theory is a mathematical framework fo ...

, and

string theory In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interac ...

. She is an associate professor and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at

Heriot-Watt University Heriot-Watt University ( gd, Oilthigh Heriot-Watt) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, the world's first mechanics' institute, and subsequently granted univ ...

Early life

Hollands was born in

Maasbree Maasbree (; li, Bree) is a former municipality and a town in southeastern Netherlands. Until 1818, the municipality was just called ''Bree'' in Dutch too. Population centres *Baarlo *Maasbree History In the Middle Ages Maasbree and Baarlo ...

, Netherlands.

Education

Hollands earned her PhD at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

in 2009. Her dissertation, ''Topological Strings and Quantum Curves'', was supervised by

Robbert Dijkgraaf Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (Help:IPA for Dutch, Dutch: born 24 January 1960) is a Dutch mathematical physics, theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theory, string theorist ...

. Hollands did her postdoctoral research with

Sergei Gukov Sergei Gukov (russian: Серге́й Гу́ков; born 1977) is a professor of mathematics and theoretical physicist. Gukov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in Moscow, Russia before obtaining a doctorate in physi ...

at the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

Career

In 2013, Hollands became a research fellow at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. In 2015, Hollands became an associate professor at the Department of Math at

Recognition

In 2018 the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...

gave her their

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, in ...

"in recognition of her outstanding research at the interface between quantum theory and geometry and of her leadership in mathematical outreach activities".

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