Maria Heep-Altiner (born 29 December 1959 in

Niederzeuzheim Hadamar is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Hadamar is known for its Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry/Centre for Social Psychiatry, lying at the edge of town, in whose outlying buildings is also found the Hadamar Memo ...

) is a German mathematician, actuary and university lecturer.

Life

After graduating from the Prince Johann Ludwig School in

Hadamar Hadamar is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Hadamar is known for its Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry/Centre for Social Psychiatry, lying at the edge of town, in whose outlying buildings is also found the Hadamar Memo ...

in 1978, Heep-Altiner studied

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

. In 1989 she earned her doctorate in mathematics on the

Number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

topic "Period relations for

GL_2(f)

" under

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and

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. She then worked as an

actuary An actuary is a business professional who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty. The name of the corresponding field is actuarial science. These risks can affect both sides of the balance sheet and require asset man ...

for

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, before she moved companies in 1994 to Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG. There she became the actuarial manager for property insurance. In 2006, she moved to

Talanx Talanx is a German multinational financial services company headquartered in Hanover, Germany. Its core businesses are reinsurance, insurance and asset managemenTalanx is Germany's third-largest and one of the major European insurance Groups by ...

, where she was responsible for setting up an internal holding model. In 2008, Heep-Altiner returned to academia as a professor at the Institute of Insurance at

Cologne university of applied sciences Cologne University of Applied Sciences, officially called TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences (''german: Technische Hochschule Köln'', abbreviated TH Köln) is an institute of higher education located in Cologne, Germany, established in ...

. There she is responsible for the area of financing in the insurance company. She is a member of the

German Actuarial Society The German Actuarial Society or German Association of Actuaries (german: Deutsche Aktuarvereinigung, DAV) is the association of actuaries in Germany. It is a full member of the International Actuarial Association and the Actuarial Association of Eu ...

executive board. In addition, she has co-published various publications on various actuarial topics, in particular on the

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Publications

For the following books Heep-Altiner was the main author or significant part of the writing team: * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heep-Altiner, Maria 1959 births Living people 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Actuaries Number theory Academic staff of the University of Bonn Women mathematicians