Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and head of the Cambridge Image Analysis group. She has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge since 2011 and was a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute from 2016 to 2020. She currently chairs the Committee for Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations (CAIR) of the European Mathematical Society.

Her research focuses on variational methods, partial differential equations, and machine learning for image analysis, inverse problems, and the mathematical foundations of AI. She leads interdisciplinary collaborations across biomedical imaging, chemical engineering, plant sciences, and digital art restoration.

Carola’s work has been recognised with several awards, including the LMS Whitehead Prize (2016), Philip Leverhulme Prize (2017), Calderón Prize (2019), Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (2020), a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Klagenfurt (2022), and SIAM Fellowship (2024). She has delivered plenary lectures at major applied mathematics conferences, including SIAM, AIP, FOCM, AIMS, GAMM, EMIM, and ENUMATH.

She earned her PhD from Cambridge in 2009 after studying in Salzburg and held positions in Göttingen and Cambridge, becoming Professor in 2018.