About me

I am postdoc at the Research Station Geometry + Dynamics at Heidelberg university. I finished by PhD in 2021 with my thesis on the "Horofunction Compactification of Finite-Dimensional Normed Spaces and of Symmetric Spaces" under the supervision of Anna Wienhard. The PhD thesis is a continuation and extension of my Diploma thesis, finished in 2014. My research interests are compacitifications, especially the horofunction compacitification, and symmetric spaces.

I am also the scientific coordinator of the Research Station, organizing conferences and workshops, taking care of outreach activities and other scientific events. For first year math students I set up an (interactive) lecture "Fun facts of linear algebra and analysis", to spark interest in different areas and show the beauty of math. I am a member of the networking program Upstream and helped in its organization from the mathematical perspective until spring 2023.

Before going to university, I spent most of my school education in Munich, except for three years (1996 - 1999) when I lived in Fukuoka, Japan, where I attended the regular Japanese primary school. I still have a deep connection to Japan, so to maintain my language skills and experience other ways of working on Maths I studied 6 months at Kyoto University (winter term 2010) and visited Koji Fujiwara in Oktober 2014.

I enjoy spending my time outside in the garden or discovering the forests and nature around Heidelberg, best together with my husband and our two kids.

Contact

Postal address

Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg
Mathematisches Institut, 3/307
Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, Mathematikon
69120 Heidelberg
Germany

Phone

+49 (0) 6221-54-14205

e-mail

aschilling[at]mathi.uni-heidelberg.de