Christine Bessenrodt
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Christine Bessenrodt (1958–2022) was a German mathematician who was for many years the Chair of Algebra and Number Theory at Leibniz University Hannover. Her research involved representation theory, algebraic combinatorics, and additive number theory. She was also known for her advocacy of women in mathematics, including founding the Emmy Noether Lecture program of the German Mathematical Society.[1]
Bessenrodt was born on 18 March 1958, in Ahlten, the daughter of two physicists. After undergraduate study in mathematics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and graduate study at the University of Essen (now part of the University of Duisburg-Essen), she earned a doctorate in 1980.[2] Her dissertation, Unzerlegbare Gitter in Blöcken mit zyklischen Defektgruppen [Indecomposable lattices in blocks with cyclic defect groups], concerned the representation theory of finite groups, and was supervised by Gerhard O. Michler.[2][3]
