Sarah Zerbes

Sarah Livia Zerbes (IPA: [tsɛrbɛs],^[1] born 2 August 1978) is a German algebraic number theorist at ETH Zurich. Her research interests include L-functions, modular forms, p-adic Hodge theory, and Iwasawa theory,^[2] and her work has led to new insights towards the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, which predicts the number of rational points on an elliptic curve by the behavior of an associated L-function.^[3]

Education and career

Zerbes read mathematics at the University of Cambridge, earning first class honours in 2001.^[2] She completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge in 2005; her dissertation, Selmer groups over non-commutative p-adic Lie extensions, was supervised by John H. Coates.^[2][4]

While still a graduate student, she became a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, and after completing her doctorate she undertook postdoctoral studies as a Hodge Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris, as a Chapman Fellow at Imperial College London, and (while working as a lecturer at the University of Exeter beginning in 2008) as a postdoctoral fellow under the support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

She took another lectureship at University College London in 2012, and was a professor there from 2016 until 2021.^[2] Zerbes also serves on the council of the London Mathematical Society.^[5] Since 1 January 2022 she is a full professor of Mathematics at ETH Zürich.^[6]

Recognition

Zerbes won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2014, jointly with her husband and frequent research collaborator David Loeffler of the University of Warwick.^[3] In 2015 Zerbes and Loeffler won the Whitehead Prize "for their work in number theory, in particular for their discovery of a new Euler system, and for their applications of this to generalisations of the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture."^[7]

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