Felix Otto (mathematician)

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Felix Otto (born May 19, 1966 in Munich ) is a German mathematician and university professor .

Felix Otto, Oberwolfach 2009

Life

After studying mathematics at the University of Bonn , he received his doctorate in 1993. From 1995–1997 he was visiting scholar at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University , USA , and at Carnegie Mellon University , USA. In 1997 he became an assistant professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara , USA, where he received a full professorship in 1998. In 1999 he received a C4 professorship for applied mathematics at the University of Bonn. Since May 1, 2010 he has been one of the directors at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences in Leipzig.

Research area and awards

His research focus is in the area of partial differential equations . Until 2007 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 611 "Singular Phenomena and Scaling in Mathematical Models" and has since been coordinator of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics , which was set up as part of the Excellence Initiative. With the Otto calculus named after him, “fundamental inequalities of analysis can be understood in a very simple way”.

In 1998 Felix Otto Sloan became a Research Fellow . In 2001 he received the Max Planck Research Award . In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing ( Cross-over in scaling laws: a simple example from micromagnetics ). In 2006 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . In 2007 Otto was awarded the Collatz Prize for outstanding research achievements in the field of applied mathematics. In 2008 he gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam ( Pattern formation and partial differential equations ), and in 2009 he gave the Gauss lecture . For 2017 he was awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal .

He was elected as a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2007, a member of the Leopoldina in 2008 , the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2014, and the Academia Europaea in 2015 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see announcement about his admission to the BBAW at http://www.bbaw.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen-2014/bbaw-24-2014
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Felix Otto (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Membership directory: Felix Otto. Academia Europaea, accessed on July 11, 2017 .


personal data
SURNAME Otto, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich