{{Short description|Swiss-Indian mathematician}} {{Use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=November 2022}} {{Use list-defined references|date=November 2022}} [[File:Indira Chatterji Oberwolfach 2026.jpg|thumb|Chatterji at [[Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach|Oberwolfach]] in 2026]] '''Indira Lara Chatterji''' (born 25 January 1973) is a Swiss-Indian mathematician working in France as a professor of mathematics in the J. A. Dieudonné Laboratory of the [[University of Côte d'Azur]]. Her research involves low-dimensional geometry, [[cubical complex]]es, and [[geometric group theory]].{{r|bridges}} She has also studied [[sexism]] and [[institutional bias]] in mathematics.{{r|ihes|glass}}
==Education and career== Chatterji was born in [[Lausanne]],{{r|cv}} where her father, Indian [[probability theory|probability theorist]] Srishti Dhar Chatterji, worked; her mother was a Swiss woman from [[Ticino]], Carla Bolognini.{{r|sdc}} She is a Swiss citizen, and holds [[Overseas Citizenship of India]]. After entering the [[University of Lausanne]] intending to study [[criminology]] and then [[sociology]], she switched to mathematics,{{r|portraits}} earning a [[Licentiate (degree)|license]] in 1995 and a [[Diplom|diploma]] in 1997. She completed her doctorate in mathematics at [[ETH Zurich]] in 2001.{{r|cv}} Her dissertation, ''On property (RD) for certain discrete groups'', studied the property of "rapid decay" in [[group theory]], introduced by [[Vincent Lafforgue]] in connection with the [[Baum–Connes conjecture]].{{r|diss}} It was jointly supervised by Marc Burger and Alain Valette.{{r|mg}}
After working as an H. C. Wang Assistant Professor at [[Cornell University]], she took a tenure-track faculty position at [[Ohio State University]] in 2005, and remained there until 2011, earning tenure in 2010. In 2007, she was one of 16 US mathematicians to win an [[National Science Foundation CAREER Awards|NSF CAREER Award]].{{r|career}} Meanwhile, in 2007, she began working as a professor at the [[University of Orléans]] in France (on leave from Ohio State), and in 2010 was promoted to [[Academic ranks in France|professor 1st class]]. In 2014 she moved to her present position in the J. A. Dieudonné Laboratory, originally associated with the [[University of Nice Sophia Antipolis]] and currently with the University of Côte d'Azur.{{r|cv}}
She also serves on the scientific council of the {{ill|Fondation sciences mathématiques de Paris|fr}}.{{r|fsmp}}
==Animation== Along with her mathematical research, Chatterji has made animated drawings that illustrate concepts in geometric group theory for general-audience talks, and exhibited her drawings in the [[Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics]] "Illustrating Mathematics" program.{{r|bridges}}
==Recognition== Chatterji was a junior member of the [[Institut Universitaire de France]] from 2014 to 2019.{{r|cv}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=bridges>{{citation|url=http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2019-icerm-illustrating-mathematics/indira|title=Indira Chatterji|work=Mathematical art galleries: 2019 ICERM|publisher=[[The Bridges Organization]]|accessdate=2020-02-18}}</ref>
<ref name=career>{{citation|url=http://www.ams.org/notices/200802/tx080200264p.pdf|title=NSF CAREER Awards Made|journal=[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society]]|volume=55|issue=2|pages=266–267|department=Mathematics People|date=February 2008}}</ref>
<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=http://chatterj.perso.math.cnrs.fr/CV.html|title=Short Vita for Indira Lara Chatterji|accessdate=2022-11-06}}</ref>
<ref name=diss>{{citation|first=Indira Lara|last=Chatterji|title=On property (RD) for certain discrete groups|date=2001 |publisher=[[ETH Zurich]]|doi=10.3929/ethz-a-004222014 |hdl=20.500.11850/145331 }}</ref>
<ref name=fsmp>{{citation|url=https://www.sciencesmaths-paris.fr/en/scientific-council-212.htm|title=Scientific council|publisher=Fondation sciences mathématiques de Paris|accessdate=2020-02-18|archive-date=2016-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404151150/http://www.sciencesmaths-paris.fr/en/scientific-council-212.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=glass>{{citation|title=Tribune d'Indira Chatterji : de l'autre côté du plafond de verre|url=https://chatterj.perso.math.cnrs.fr/papers/plafond_verre_gazette.pdf|first=I.|last=Chatterji|language=fr|magazine=SMF Gazette|date=January 2018}}</ref>
<ref name=ihes>{{citation|url=https://www.ihes.fr/en/2022-international-women-in-mathematics-day/|title=IHES celebrates women in mathematics|date=5 May 2022|publisher=Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
<ref name=mg>{{mathgenealogy|id=54355}}</ref>
<ref name=portraits>{{citation|url=http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Portrait-croise-de-deux-mathematiciennes?lang=fr|language=fr|title=Portrait croisé de deux mathématiciennes|first=Aurélien|last=Alvarez|date=20 May 2014|trans-title=Portrait of two mathematicians|work=Images des mathématiques|publisher=CNRS}}</ref>
<ref name=sdc>{{citation|title=Srishti Dhar Chatterji (1935-2017) In Memoriam|first1=V. S.|last1=Varadarajan|first2=Robert C.|last2=Dalang|journal=Expositiones Mathematicae|volume=36|issue=3–4|date=December 2018|pages=231–252|doi=10.1016/j.exmath.2018.09.005|arxiv=1810.03441}}</ref>
</references>
==External links== *[http://chatterj.perso.math.cnrs.fr/index.html Home page]
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