Katrin Tent is a German mathematician specializing ingroup theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraicmodel theory, andTits buildings.She is a professor of mathematics andmathematical logic at theUniversity of Münster.^[1]

Tent studied mathematics, linguistics, and computer science at theUniversity of Kiel from 1982 to 1988, obtaining a PhD in linguistics in 1988. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at theWestern University in Canada, she earned a diploma in mathematics in 1989 from the University of Kiel.^[2] She moved to theUniversity of Notre Dame in the United States for doctoral study in mathematics, and completed her PhD there in 1994. Her dissertation,Classifying totally categorical groups (and others), was supervised by Steven A. Buechler.^[2][3]

After working as a visiting researcher at theHebrew University of Jerusalem and then at theUniversity of Würzburg, where she completed ahabilitation in 2001 with the habilitation thesisModel theory of groups and BN-pairs, and after a brief stint as a lecturer at theUniversity of Birmingham, she became a professor of mathematics atBielefeld University in 2004. She took her present position as a professor of mathematics and mathematical logic at theUniversity of Münster in 2008.^[2] Since 2020, she is President of theDeutsche Vereinigung für mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der exakten Wissenschaften.^[4]

With Martin Ziegler, Tent is the co-author of a book onmodel theory,A Course in Model Theory (Lecture Notes in Logic 40, Cambridge University Press, 2012).^[5] She is also the editor ofTits Buildings and the Model Theory of Groups (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Vol. 291, Cambridge University Press, 2002)^[6] and ofGroups and Analysis: The Legacy ofHermann Weyl (London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series, Vol. 354, Cambridge University Press, 2008),^[7] and co-editor ofLectures in Model Theory (with Franziska Jahnke and Daniel Palacín, Münster Lectures in Mathematics, European Mathematical Society, 2018).

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