Hélène Esnault
Einstein Professor (Emeritus), Institute of Mathematics, Free University, Berlin - Photo Copyright: Martin Steffen
Prof. Hélène Esnault is a French-German mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. Prof. Esnault is Einstein Professor (Emeritus) at Free University Berlin’s Institute of Mathematics. She was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2003. In 2014 Prof. Esnault was elected to the Academia Europaea. She is also a member of the (German) National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Nordrhein-Westfalen Academy of Sciences and the Arts. In 2019 Hélène Esnault was awarded the Cantor Medal. She is or has been an editor of many journals, including Duke, Mathematische Annalen, Mathematical Research Letters, Algebra and Number Theory, Astérisque, J. of the European Mathematical Society, and Acta Mathematica. Prof. Esnault is a member of the Fields Committee (2018) and Chair of the Shaw Prize Committee (2021-2025).