Mina Teicher

Mina Teicher was born in 1950 in Tel Aviv

Mina Teicher was born in Tel Aviv in 1950 and grew up there. She is married to the architect Charlie Durel, and they have two daughters and a son.

She earned her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at Tel Aviv University in 1974, 1976 and 1981. Her doctoral thesis was supervised by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro. She then did postdoctoral work at Princeton University.

At Bar-Ilan University she has led the Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics since 1999, and she is now professor emerita. Her research in algebraic geometry and braid theory has uses in brain research, computer vision and theoretical physics. In 2001 and 2002 she was the first Emmy Noether Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen.

She served as chief scientist of the Ministry of Science from 2005. In 2008 she was elected vice president of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. She chaired the board of governors of the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation from 2012 to 2013 and also led the national council for advancing women in science and technology.