Ewa Damek (born 9 August 1958) is a Polish mathematician at the University of Wrocław whose research interests include harmonic analysis, branching processes, and Siegel domains.
Damek is a professor in the mathematical institute of the University of Wrocław,[1] which she directed from 2002 to 2007.[2]
She studied mathematics at the University of Wrocław beginning in 1977, and completed a doctorate under the supervision of Andrzej HulanickiUniversity of Georgia in the US, she returned to Wrocław, where she became a full professor in 2000.[2]
in 1987. After a stint at theIn 1992, with Fulvio Ricci, Damek published a family of counterexamples to a form of the Lichnerowicz conjecture according to which harmonic Riemannian manifolds must be locally symmetric. The asymmetric spaces they found as counterexamples are at least seven-dimensional; they are called Damek–Ricci spaces.[3]
Damek is the coauthor, with D. Buraczewski and T. Mikosch, of the book Stochastic Models with Power Law Tails: The Equation (Springer, 2016).[4]
In 2011 Damek was named a knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[1][2]