Karen Uhlenbeck

Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University. After temporary jobs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, she had difficulty finding a permanent position alongside her husband because of anti-nepotism rules. She is the first woman to win the Abel Prize, awarded in 2019, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.