Tanya Christiansen

Tanya Julie Christiansen is an American mathematician known for her work in scattering theory and the theory of partial differential equations. She currently holds the position of Luther Marion Defoe Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri. Christiansen earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics from Rice University in 1989, graduating summa cum laude. She went on to complete her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993, with her dissertation focusing on Scattering Theory on Compact Manifolds with Boundary under the supervision of Richard Burt Melrose. After holding postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, she joined the faculty of the University of Missouri in 1995. In 2019, she was appointed as the Defoe Distinguished Professor.