Katrin Leschke (born 1968) [1] is a German mathematician specialising in differential geometry and known for her work on quaternionic analysis and Willmore surfaces. She works in England as a reader in mathematics at the University of Leicester, [2] where she also heads the "Maths Meets Arts Tiger Team", an interdisciplinary group for the popularisation of mathematics, [3] and led the "m:iv" project of international collaboration on minimal surfaces. [4]
Leschke did her undergraduate studies at the Technical University of Berlin, and continued there for a PhD, [2] which she completed in 1997. Her dissertation, Homogeneity and Canonical Connections of Isoparametric Manifolds, was jointly supervised by Dirk Ferus and Ulrich Pinkall. [5]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Berlin from 1997 to 2002, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2002 to 2005, and a researcher and temporary associate professor at the University of Augsburg from 2005 to 2007. [6] At Augsburg, she completed her habilitation, [2] working in the group of Katrin Wendland. [7] She joined the University of Leicester as New Blood Lecturer in 2007 and became reader there in 2016. [6]
Leschke is a coauthor of the book Conformal Geometry of Surfaces in and Quaternions (Springer, 2002), developing the theory of quaternionic analysis. [8]