Rebecca Waldecker

Rebecca Anne Hedwig Waldecker is a German mathematician specializing in group theory. She is professor for algebra at Martin [Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg].

Education and career

Waldecker is originally from Aachen. She earned her doctorate at the University of Kiel in 2007, under the supervision of, and in 2014 completed her habilitation at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
After postdoctoral research as a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Birmingham, Waldecker joined Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg as a junior professor in 2009. She became professor for algebra in 2015.

Books

Waldecker is the author of the book Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups, developed from her doctoral dissertation.
With Lasse Rempe-Gillen, she is the coauthor of Primzahltests für Einsteiger: Zahlentheorie, Algorithmik, Kryptographie, a book on primality tests that was translated into English as Primality Testing for Beginners.
She became a coauthor to the 2012 textbook Elementare Algebra und Zahlentheorie of, in its second edition.