Felix Otto

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

Life

After studying mathematics at the University of Bonn, he received his doctorate in 1993. During the period 1995-1997 he was a visiting scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University. In 1997 he became assistant professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he received a full professorship in 1998. In 1999 he received a C4 professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bonn. Since 1 May 2010, he is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.

Research and Awards

His focus is in the area of ​​partial differential equations. He was until 2007 Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 611 " Singular phenomena and scaling in mathematical models " and has been coordinator of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics have been, which was established as part of the Excellence Initiative.

In 2001, Felix Otto received the Max Planck Research Award. In 2006, he of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. 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 ). In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (Cross -over in scaling laws: a simple example from micro magnetics ). In 2009 he held the Gaussian lecture.

He was elected in 2007 as a full member of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.