Renate Scheidler | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

University of Calgary

Renate Scheidler is a German-Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. Her research focuses on algorithms and computations in global fields—algebraic number fields and algebraic function fields over finite fields—within the contexts of algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, and cryptography.

She is a professor in the Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Calgary. Renate serves as the co-editor-in-chief of Contributions to Discrete Mathematics and is one of the founders of the Women in Number Theory research community and the Women in Numbers conference series.

In recognition of her contributions to mathematics, she was awarded the 2024 Krieger-Nelson Prize. Renate has also held leadership roles, including serving as Graduate Director in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Calgary and as an adjudicator for NSERC Discovery Grants.

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