ERC Advanced Grant for HITS group leader
Mathematician Anna Wienhard has been awarded a prestigious grant of the European Research Council (ERC) for outstanding scientists, an ERC Advanced Grant. She is group leader of the “Groups and Geometry” group at HITS and professor at the Mathematical Institute of Heidelberg University. For her project on symmetries in mathematics, Anna Wienhard will receive approx. two million euros. The project will run over a period of five years, the host institution is Heidelberg University.