Big formulas for small components

Leila Taghizadeh - Mathematician Leila Taghizadeh is researching new methods to describe nano-components. She has now been awarded the TU Wien Hannspeter Winter Preis. Sometimes mathematics can save lives. This is proven by Leila Taghizadeh and her research at the Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing at TU Wien. Many diseases can be detected in time by going to the doctor regularly or by looking inside the body with sophisticated imaging techniques. But wouldn't it be much more practical to simply attach a sensor to the body that uses electrical measurements to find out in a very short time whether there is a problem? In order to achieve that, the propagation of electric current and the movement of individual charge carriers must be precisely understood. This requires sophisticated mathematical methods - and this is exactly what mathematician Leila Taghizadeh is working on.