Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger (born 1949) is an Austrian mathematical economist,

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, and

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er. She is a professor emeritus at the

University of Graz The University of Graz (german: link=no, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, ), located in Graz, Austria, is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria. History The univers ...

, where she headed the department of statistics and operations research, and is a former president of the

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Education and career

Leopold-Wildburger studied mathematics, philosophy, and logic at the University of Graz from 1967 to 1972, earning a master of science in 1971 and a master of philosophy in 1972. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Graz in 1975, and earned a habilitation in operations research and mathematical economics there in 1982. She joined the teaching staff at the University of Graz as a lecturer in mathematical economics in 1972, and became an assistant professor in 1983. She became a professor of mathematics and informatics at the

University of Klagenfurt The University of Klagenfurt (german: Universität Klagenfurt or ''Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt'', AAU) is a federal Austrian research university and the largest research and higher education institution in the state of Carinthia. It has it ...

in 1986, a professor of operations research at the

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in 1988, and a professor of mathematical economics at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

in 1991, before returning to Graz as a professor of statistics and operations research. She headed the department from 1996 to 1998, and was dean of studies in the faculty of economics and social sciences from 2001 to 2004. She returned to her position as head of department in 2010. She was president of the

from 1993 to 1997.

Books

With Gerald A. Heuer, Leopold-Wildburger is the coauthor of the books ''Balanced Silverman Games on General Discrete Sets'' (1991) and ''Silverman’s Game: A Special Class of Two-Person Zero-Sum Games'' (1995), concerning Silverman's game. Leopold-Wildburger is a coauthor of ''The Knowledge Ahead Approach to Risk: Theory and Experimental Evidence'' (With Robin Pope and Johannes Leitner, 2007). She is also a coauthor of two German-language textbooks, ''Einführung in die Wirtschaftsmathematik'' (''Introduction to Mathematical Economics'', with Jochen Hülsmann, Wolf Gamerith, and Werner Steindl, 1998; 5th ed., 2010) and ''Verfassen und Vortragen: Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten und Vorträge leicht gemacht'' (with Jörg Schütze, 2002).

Recognition

Leopold-Wildburger was given the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class in 2010. She became a member of the

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in 2011.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leopold-Wildburger, Ulrike 1949 births Living people Austrian economists Austrian women economists Austrian mathematicians Austrian women mathematicians Operations researchers University of Graz alumni Academic staff of the University of Graz Academic staff of the University of Klagenfurt Academic staff of the University of Zurich University of Minnesota faculty Members of Academia Europaea Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class