Corina-Gabriela Ciobotaru and Li Chen new associate professors at the Department of Mathematics
We are pleased to welcome Corina-Gabriela Ciobotaru, starting on December 1, 2024, and Li Chen, starting on January 1, 2025, as new associate professors at the Department of Mathematics.

Corina-Gabriela Ciobotaru completed her PhD in Mathematics at the Université catholique de Louvain in 2014. Since then, she has held postdoctoral positions in Geneva, Münster, Fribourg and at the IHES before joining the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) in 2021. In 2023, she received a Villum Young Investigator Grant for her project “Limits of p-adic geometries” and was appointed assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics in Aarhus.
Corina’s research is in geometric group theory where she applies methods from geometry such as metric spaces and affine buildings to questions in harmonic analysis and representation theory of locally compact groups. This includes in particular the study of groups over the p-adic numbers and their actions on related geometric objects. Corina is the main organiser of the networking group Women in Mathematics Aarhus (WoMAn).

Li Chen completed her PhD in mathematics at the Australian National University and Universite Paris-Sud in 2014. Since then, she has held a postdoctoral position (2015-2017) at ICMAT in Madrid, an assistant research professor position (2017-2020) at the University of Connecticut and a tenure track assistant professor position at Louisiana State University (2020-2024). In January 2024 she joined the mathematics department at Aarhus University as a visiting associate professor.
Her research areas are harmonic analysis, probability and (stochastic) partial differential equations. The main focus of her study is to investigate how functional and probabilistic techniques can be applied and extended to gain a better understanding of the interaction between the randomness and the analytic and geometric structures in a variety of smooth or rough environments.