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Astrid Mirle

Represented the German Democratic Republic at the 1990 International Mathematical Olympiad (bronze medal); mathematician (later Astrid Franz)
Philips Research · Hamburg, Germany · academic
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IMO 1990 Bronze Medallist For The German Democratic RepublicGeorg Helm Prize 1997 (TU Dresden)Dr. Rer. Nat. TU Dresden 1998 (supervisor Volker Reitmann)Researcher At Philips Research Hamburg (medical Image Registration)

East German mathematician (IMO 1990 bronze medallist for the GDR) who became a researcher in fractal geometry, random walks and, later, medical image registration/analysis at Philips Research Hamburg; publishes as Astrid Franz.

Astrid Mirle is an East German mathematician. As a school pupil in Riesa she represented the German Democratic Republic (DDR) at the 31st International Mathematical Olympiad in Beijing in 1990, winning a bronze medal (rank 80, 22/42 points; the GDR team placed 7th). She went on to study mathematics at TU Dresden, where she was supervised by Doz. Dr. Volker Reitmann and won the university's Georg Helm Prize in 1997 for her Diplom thesis 'Abschaetzung der Hausdorff-Dimension invarianter Mengen' (estimation of the Hausdorff dimension of invariant sets). She received her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at TU Dresden in 1998, and subsequently worked on fractals and random walks in the physics department of TU Chemnitz (SFB 393) before joining Philips Research in Hamburg, where she became a research scientist in medical image registration and analysis. She published under both 'Astrid Mirle' and, after marriage, 'Astrid Franz'.

Details
LocationHamburg, Germany
Company sitephilips.com
UniversityTU Dresden
Mathematical analysisDynamical systemsFractal geometryNumerical simulationImage registrationMedical image analysisPhysicsMathematicsMedical imaging
Notes
  • Completed a Dr. rer. nat. at TU Dresden in 1998; Mathematics Genealogy Project records her doctorate under Volker Reitmann (listed there under her married name 'Franz geb. Mirle').1998
  • Won the Georg Helm Prize 1997 at TU Dresden for her Diplom thesis on the Hausdorff dimension of invariant sets, supervised by Doz. Dr. Volker Reitmann - a prize awarded to the three best theses per year.1997
  • Won a bronze medal at IMO 1990 in Beijing as a school pupil from Riesa (SPS 'F. Engels'), scoring a perfect 7 on problem 2 and 5 on problem 1.Jul 1990
  • By the mid-2000s she was at Philips Research Laboratories Hamburg working on medical image registration; gave a 2005 colloquium on registration of medical images at San Diego State University's Computational Science Research Center.2005
  • ResearchGate profile (as Astrid Franz, Philips) shows ~50 publications and ~950 citations, consolidating the Dresden, Chemnitz and Philips phases into one research career.2024
  • Philips contact email [contact omitted] appears on a 2013 AAPM abstract, indicating she was still at Philips Research Hamburg in 2013.2013
  • Published fractal/random-walk physics (Sierpinski carpets, Einstein relation) with the SFB 393 group at TU Chemnitz and with Karl Heinz Hoffmann.2001

Competition record

German Democratic Republic · IMO

1990 · Bronze · Rank 80