Angkana Rüland, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bonn and holder of a prestigious Hausdorff Chair at the cluster of excellence Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, has been elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, on the recommendation of renowned colleagues.
The Leopoldina has two main tasks: to provide science-based advice to politicians and the public, and to represent German science in committees in which mainly national academies are active. "Being elected to the Leopoldina is a great honor for me," says Angkana Rüland, delighted with the award. "I am very pleased to be able to play an active role in the Leopoldina."
Angkana Rüland studied mathematics in Bonn and Leipzig and received her doctorate from the University of Bonn in 2014. She then spent three years as a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and from 2017 to 2020 was group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. In 2020, she accepted a professorship in Heidelberg and returned to Bonn in 2023, where she holds a Hausdorff Chair at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. She received the Calderón Prize for Inverse Problems from the Inverse Problems International Association in 2023 and the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation in 2024. In 2025, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important research award in Germany.
