Krieger-Nelson Prize Winner

Dr. Renate Scheidler is a Professor at the University of Calgary, with a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics and the Department of Computer Science. She received her Master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cologne and her PhD in computer science from the University of Manitoba under the supervision of Hugh Williams. In 2022, she held a one-year Helene Lange Visiting Professorship at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. Dr. Scheidler’s research straddles the interface between mathematics and computer science, centering on the design and analysis of algorithms and computations in global fields in the context of algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and cryptography. She is a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and a co-founder and steering committee member of the Women in Numbers network.