Michael Struwe

Michael Struwe ( born October 6, 1955 in Wuppertal ) is a German mathematician.

Life

Struwe studied mathematics at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. After graduating in 1980, he worked as a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 72, later working as a teaching assistant at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn. Longer research stays have taken him to Paris and at ETH Zurich.

In 1984 he qualified as a professor in Bonn. As of April 1986, he was first appointed as an assistant professor, then from October 1990 as an associate professor of mathematics at the ETH Zurich; he has been Professor of Mathematics since 1993. His research interests are nonlinear partial differential equations and the calculus of variations and their applications in mathematical physics and differential geometry.

He is co-editor of the journals Calculus of Variations, Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, International Mathematical Research Notices and Mathematical Journal.

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Honors and Awards

• Felix- Hausdorff - Prize of the University of Bonn (1984 )
• Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto, 1990 ( The evolution of harmonic maps).
• Golden Owl VSETH ETH Zurich ( 2006, 2007, 2012)
• Gauss Lecture of the DMV (2011)
• Georg Cantor Medal ( 2012)
• Member of the Leopoldina (2013 )