In this month's podcast, our guest is Catriona Byrne.

Catriona Byrne has French and Scottish origins. She obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and worked for Springer as a Publishing Editor and later as Director for Mathematics until 2022, working with international teams of editors. In that time she held responsibility for many book series, including the flagship Grundlehren and Ergebnisse, and the Lecture Notes in Mathematics, as well as many journals including Inventiones Mathematicae, Mathematische Annalen, Mathematische Zeitschrift, and Probability Theory and Related Fields.

Among other innovations, she initiated the digitisation of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series, and she launched and developed Springer’s successful programme of books and three journals in mathematical finance from 1998.

She will be hosted by Bernard Teissier.

Bernard Teissier, born 1945, is a French mathematician who has made major contributions to algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, specifically to singularity theory, multiplicity theory and valuation theory. His PhD from the University of Paris VII Denis-Diderot in 1973 was supervised by Heisuke Hironaka. He was a member of Nicolas Bourbaki. He has been a CNRS researcher at the École Polytechnique, the École Normale Supérieure and at Paris Universities. He was an Invited Speaker at the 1983 International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.

Bernard Teissier has been one of the Editors of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Mathematics series since 1995.