Mai Gehrke
Mai Gehrke is a Danish mathematician who studies the theory of lattices and their applications to mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. She is a director of research for the French Centre [national de la recherche scientifique], affiliated with the Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
Education
As a child, Gehrke was educated at a French school in Algiers, which used a Bourbakist and very abstract mathematics curriculum. As a high school student in Denmark, she spent a year as an exchange student in Houston studying painting, but was brought back to mathematics by a Polish mathematics teacher who taught her point-set topology according to the Moore method.She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 1987. Her dissertation, Order Structure of Stone Spaces and the TD-axiom, was supervised by Klaus Hermann Kaiser.