The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Stuttgart and the IANS
mourn the death of
Apl.-Prof. Dr. Anna-Margarete Sändig
26 July 1944 - 3 March 2024
Anna- Margarete Sändig studied mathematics at the University of Rostock. 1968 till 1970 she
participated in an additional project in functional analysis of the Lomonossov University with
Professor Dr. G.E. Shilov. Then for two years she worked on her Doctoral thesis “On the Nonstandard
Theory of Distributions“ under the guidance of Professor Dr. I. Fenyö and obtained 1973 her PhD.
Afterwards she pursued further studies in analysis at the University of Rostock and became
associate professor ibidem. After the collapse of the German Democratic Republic she joined the
working group of Prof. Dr. W. Wendland at the Chair of Applied Mathematics in Stuttgart. In 1997
she has been awarded a prestigious Sofia Kovalevskaia guest professorship at TU Kaiserslautern.
From 2003 on she hold an extraordinary professorship at the University of Stuttgart up to her
retirement in 2011.
Anna-Margarete Sändig was an internationally well-known expert in applied analysis, numerical
mathematics and mathematical modeling. Her scientific contributions to the analysis and numerics
for the equations of continuum mechanics in non-smooth domains received worldwide appreciation. She
made fundamental contributions to the understanding of interface problems for elliptic equations.
Her work was always motivated by real world problems and she successfully applied the developed
concepts to a wide range of complex multifield problems in solid mechanics. This comprises studies
on multicomponent materials, dynamic crack propagation, piezoelectric effects and liquid phase
epitaxy.
Anna-Margarete Sändig was a hardworking scientist and published more than 50 outlets which
set standards in applied and numerical analysis. Her work combines mathematical depth with a
dedicated interdisciplinary orientation. She was a member in several research initiatives funded by
the German Research Foundation including the priority research program “Boundary Element Methods”
and the Collaborative Research Centre 404 on “Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics“ at
the University of Stuttgart. Her successful research was embedded in a network of researchers not
only from Germany but e.g. from the Czech Republic , France, Georgia, Russia and the United States.
As a teacher she gave inspiring lectures on a wide range of topics in applied analysis. In
this way she attracted many young students to the field. She advised various master students and
doctoral researchers with two of them becoming professors later on. They will carry on her visions
and ideas at the interface between continuum mechanics and applied analysis.