Kutyniok was educated in
Detmold, and obtained a diploma in mathematics and computer science at
Paderborn University in 1996. She then completed her doctorate (
Dr. rer. nat.) at Paderborn University in 2000. Her dissertation,
Time-Frequency Analysis on Locally Compact Groups, was supervised by Eberhard Kaniuth. From 2000 to 2008, she held short term positions at Paderborn University, the
Georgia Institute of Technology, the
University of Giessen,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Princeton University,
Stanford University, and
Yale University. In 2006, she earned her
habilitation in
Giessen, in 2008, she became a full professor at
Osnabrück University, and in 2011, she was given the Einstein Chair at
Technische Universität Berlin. In 2018, she added courtesy affiliations with computer science and electrical engineering at TU Berlin. In October 2020, she moved to
LMU Munich, where she holds a Bavarian AI chair. Since taking her position in Berlin, she has also visited
ETH Zurich, and taken an adjunct faculty position at the
University of Tromsø. ==Honors and awards==