Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (born 1979) is an Austrian mathematician who works in

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and

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s. She is a Fellow of

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and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the

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. She is the author of the book ''Partial Differential Equation Methods for Image Inpainting'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015), on methods for using the solutions to partial differential equations to fill in gaps in digital images. Schönlieb earned a master's degree in mathematics from the

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in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. at Cambridge in 2009. Her dissertation, ''Modern PDE Techniques for Image Inpainting'', was supervised by Peter Markowich. After postdoctoral study at the

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she returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in 2010. In 2016 Schönlieb won the

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of the

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"for her spectacular contributions to the mathematics of image analysis". She won a

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in 2017, and is the 2018 Mary Cartwright Lecturer of the London Mathematical Society. Since 2016 she has also been a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Carola is Director of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information and she is Co-Director of the Centre for Mathematical Imaging in Healthcare—both are based at the

. In 2021 she was elected Council Members-at-Large for

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for a term running January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2024. In 2022, she received a

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from the

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. She is a

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, in the 2024 class of fellows.

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