title: Berit Stensønes
text: # Berit Stensønes
  
  Berit Stensønes (19 February 1956 – 5 June 2022) was a Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics and known for her work on several complex variables. She was a professor of mathematical sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan.
  
  ## Education
  
  Stensønes completed her Ph.D. in 1985 at Princeton University. Her dissertation, Envelopes of Holomorphy, was supervised by John Erik Fornæss.
  
  ## Book
  
  With John Erik Fornæss, Stensønes was an author of the book Lectures on Counterexamples in Several Complex Variables (AMS Chelsea Publishing, American Mathematical Society, 1987; reprinted 2007).
  
  ## Recognition
  
  Stensønes was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
  
  