Ewa Damek (born 9 August 1958) is a Polish mathematician at the University of Wrocà Âaw whose research interests include harmonic analysis, branching processes, and Siegel domains.
Damek is a professor in the mathematical institute of the University of Wrocà Âaw, which she directed from 2002 to 2007.
She studied mathematics at the University of Wrocà Âaw beginning in 1977, and completed a doctorate under the supervision of in 1987. After a stint at the University of Georgia in the US, she returned to Wrocà Âaw, where she became a full professor in 2000.
In 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 DamekâÂÂRicci spaces.
Damek is the coauthor, with D. Buraczewski and T. Mikosch, of the book Stochastic Models with Power Law Tails: The Equation (Springer, 2016).
In 2011 Damek was named a knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta.