Karin Erdmann

Who is Karin Erdmann?

Karin Erdmann is a German mathematician specializing in the areas of algebra known as representation theory and homological algebra. She is notable for her work in modular representation theory which has been cited over 500 times according to the Mathematical Reviews.

She attended the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and wrote her Ph.D. thesis on "2-Hauptblöcke von Gruppen mit Dieder-Gruppen als 2-Sylow-Gruppen" in 1976 under the direction of Gerhard O. Michler. She has contributed to the understanding of the representation theory of the symmetric group.

She is a university lecturer at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford where she has had 21 doctoral students and 29 descendants. She has published over 75 papers and her work has been cited over 500 times. She has an Erdős number of 3.