Annette Huber-Klawitter was born on 23 May 1967 in
Frankfurt am Main. Between 1984 and 1986, she won the
Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, a national mathematics competition, three times in a row. She began her academic career at the
Goethe University Frankfurt and obtained her
doctorate from the
University of Münster in 1994. Her PhD dissertation was titled
Realisierung von gemischten Motiven in derivierten Kategorien und ihre Kohomologie ("Realisation of mixed motives in derived categories and their cohomologies") and completed under the supervision of
Christopher Deninger. From 1995 to 1996, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the
University of California, Berkeley. == Career ==