Prof. Dr. Karin Baur

Pure Mathematics (Reine Mathematik)

address:
Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum
Fakultät für Mathematik
Uni­ver­si­täts­stra­ße 150
D-44780 Bo­chum

[campus map, google maps]

room:
IB 2/127

phone:
(+49)(0)234 / 32-23240

email:
karin.baur(at)rub.de

office hours: by appointment

Research Areas

  • Algebra
  • Representation theory
  • Cluster algebras
  • Cluster categories
  • Combinatorics
  • Lie algebras

Research Projects

2022-2027:
PI of project "Combinatorial Representation Theory: Algebra and its interfaces with geometry, topology and combinatorics" (2,554,972£)

2019:
Listen to Intuition, Kulturjahr Stadt Graz 2020 -> 2021 (5,400€)

2019-2022:
Faculty member of Discrete Mathematics in Graz and Leoben (2,045,000€)

2018-2023:
Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (234,818£)

2018:
OeAD grant for cooperation with Slovenia (4,300€)

2018:
JESH fellowship, research visit of Dr. A. Nasr (20,000€)

2017-2020:
FWF project "Dimer algebras on surfaces", 2 postdoctoral researchers (390,000€)

2017:
ASEA-Uninet cooperation with Indonesia (3,000€)

2014-2017:
PI of project "Unkonventionelle Forschung" with Dr. K. Fellner at University of Graz (180,000€)

2015/2016:
JESH fellowship, research visit of Dr. A. Nasr (10,000€)

2014-2018:
Co-PI and faculty member of Discrete Mathematics in Graz and Leoben, FWF(2,000,000€)

2013-2016:
FWF project "Symmetric groups and geometric representation theory", one post-doctoral researcher (200,000€)

2012-2015:
FWF project "Surface algebras", one post-doctoral researcher, one PhD student (300,000€)

2012-2013:
SNSF project "Cluster categories and triangulations", extension of a prodoc module (51,099 CHF)

2011-2013:
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship with Dr. D. Bogdanic as researcher (170,901 CHF)

2009-2012:
SNSF project "Cluster categories and triangulations", research module prodoc (152,414 CHF)

2007-2011:
SNSF Professorship (1,185,468 CHF)

2004:
Scholarship by the Freie Akademische Stiftung (20,000 CHF)

2003-2004:
SNSF Fellowship for prospective researchers (75,936 CHF)

1999-2002:
Marie Heim-Vögtlin subsidies: fellowship during PhD (65,848 CHF)

Short CV

  • since 2024: Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum
  • 2018-2023: Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship
  • since 2018: Professor at University of Leeds
  • since 2011: Professor at University of Graz
  • 2007-2011: SNSF Professor (assistant professor) at ETH Zurich
  • Postdoc at ETH Zurich (2002-2003), UCSD (2003-2005), and University of Leicester (2005-2007)
  • 2002: PhD at the University of Basel, Switzerland
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