Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann


Birge Katharina Huisgen-Zimmermann is a mathematician at University of California, Santa Barbara specializing in representation theory and ring theory.

Life and career

Huisgen-Zimmerman was born in Germany. Her father was the chemistry professor Rolf Huisgen. She received her Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1974 under the supervision of Friedrich Kasch. Huisgen-Zimmerman received her habilitation from Technical University of Munich in 1979, and stayed on the faculty at the Technical University of Munich until 1981. She became a researcher at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a faculty member at the University of Iowa, and a professor with a personal chair at the University of Passau, before moving to Santa Barbara in 1987.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Huisgen-Zimmerman became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

  • Zimmermann-Huisgen, Birge: Pure submodules of direct products of free modules. Math. Ann. 224, no. 3, 233–245.
  • Zimmermann-Huisgen, Birge; Zimmermann, Wolfgang: On the sparsity of representations of rings of pure global dimension zero. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 320, no. 2, 695–711.
  • Zimmermann-Huisgen, Birge: Homological domino effects and the first finitistic dimension conjecture. Invent. Math. 108, no. 2, 369–383.
  • Eklof, Paul C.; Huisgen-Zimmermann, Birge; Shelah, Saharon: Torsion modules, lattices and p-points. Bull. London Math. Soc. 29, no. 5, 547–555.
  • Huisgen-Zimmermann, Birge: Purity, algebraic compactness, direct sum decompositions, and representation type. In: Krause, H.; Ringel, C.M. Infinite length modules, 331–367, Trends Math., Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000.