Barbara Kaltenbacher

Barbara Kaltenbacher is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns inverse problems, regularization, and constrained optimization, with applications including the mathematical modeling of piezoelectricity and nonlinear acoustics. She is a Professor of Applied Analysis at the University of Klagenfurt, the president of the Austrian Mathematical Society, and (with François Loeser) the co-editor in chief of the Journal of the European Mathematical Society.

Kaltenbacher studied mathematics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, earning a diploma in 1993 and a doctorate in 1996. Her dissertation, Some Newton type methods for the regularization of nonlinear ill-posed problems, was supervised by Heinz Engl. She remained as a researcher in Linz until 2001. After taking temporary positions at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, University of Göttingen, and University of Linz, she became a professor at the University of Stuttgart in 2006. She moved to the University of Graz in 2010, and to her present position in Klagenfurt in 2011.

Kaltenbacher is the co-author of:

• Iterative Regularization Methods for Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems (with A. Neubauer and O. Scherzer, de Gruyter, 2008)
• Regularization Methods in Banach Spaces (with Thomas Schuster, Bernd Hofmann, and Kamil S. Kazimierskide, Gruyter, 2012)
• Mathematical Theory of Evolutionary Fluid-Flow Structure Interactions (with Igor Kukavica, Irena Lasiecka, Roberto Triggiani, Amjad Tuffaha, and Justin T. Webster, Birkhäuser, 2018)