Ursula Gather
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TU Dortmund
Ursula Gather | |
|---|---|
 Ursula Gather, 2020 | |
| Born | 28 April 1953 Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| Education | RWTH Aachen University |
| Employer(s) | University of Iowa TU Dortmund |
| Known for | Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Über Ausreißertests und Ausreißeranfälligkeit von Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilungen (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Burkhard Rauhut[1] |
| Doctoral students | |
Ursula Gather (born 28 April 1953) is a German statistician and academic administrator. From 2008 to 2020, she was rector of TU Dortmund University.[2] Since 2013, Gather has been chairwoman of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.
Gather is originally from Mönchengladbach. She studied mathematics at RWTH Aachen University, earning a doctorate there in 1979 and her habilitation in 1984. Her doctoral dissertation concerned the detection of outliers and robustness of statistical methods against outliers; it was supervised by Burkhard Rauhut.[1]
Career
After working at RWTH Aachen University as an assistant beginning in 1976, Gather became a professor at the University of Iowa in 1985, but returned to Germany in 1986 as a professor in the faculty of statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund, where she was chair for mathematical statistics and industrial applications. She was dean of the faculty from 1991 to 1994, and became rector at TU Dortmund in 2008 following the resignation of Eberhard Becker.[2]
Since 2013 Gather has been chairing the board of trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, succeeding Berthold Beitz.[3] The foundation owns a major stake in the ThyssenKrupp conglomerate.[4] From 2016 to 2024, she has been a member of the senate of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[5]
