Katalin Marton

Katalin Marton is a Hungarian mathematician born 1941 in Budapest. She obtained her PhD from Eotvos Lorand University in 1965 and worked at the Department of Numerical Mathematics, Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest, 1965–1973. Since 1973 she is at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her work is in information theory, measure concentration, and applications in probability theory. She won the Claude E. Shannon Award in 2013.