Jessica Fintzen
Jessica Fintzen is a German mathematician whose research concerns the representation theory of algebraic groups over the -adic numbers, with connections to the Langlands program. She is a professor at the University of Bonn.
Education and career
Fintzen competed for Germany in the 2008 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a bronze medal, and earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Jacobs University Bremen in 2011. She went to Harvard University for graduate study in mathematics, completing her Ph.D. in 2016. Her dissertation concerned the Moy–Prasad filtration and was supervised by Benedict Gross.After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Michigan, and Trinity College, Cambridge, she became an assistant professor of mathematics at Duke University and was promoted to full professor there in 2022. She has also been Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge since 2020. In 2022 she became a full professor at the University of Bonn.