Jakob Yngvason

Jacob Yngvason ( born November 23, 1945 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic / Austrian theoretical and mathematical physicist.

Yngvason After leaving school in Reykjavík in 1964 at the University of Göttingen, where in 1969 he earned his Diploma in physics and a doctorate in Hans -Jürgen Borchers 1973. After that, he was a research assistant in Göttingen, where he habilitated in 1979. From 1979 he was a scientist ( Senior Research Scientist ) at the Science Institute of the University of Iceland in Reykjavík and from 1985 professor of theoretical physics at this university. Since 1996 he is full professor at the University of Vienna, and was president from 1998 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2011 scientific director of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna. Since 2012 he is Deputy Director of the Institute. He has been a visiting scientist at Rutgers University, the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, the IHES, the NORDITA, at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and at DESY.

Yngvason worked with Elliott Lieb together on mathematical foundations of thermodynamics ( entropy axiomatic definition) and statistical mechanics (including behavior of matter at extremely high magnetic fields, such as in the interior of pulsars in quantum statistics).

In 1993 he received the Olafur Danielsson Prize in Mathematics, 2002, Levi- Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society (along with Elliott Lieb ), and the 2004 Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was Vice President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics 2000-2005. In 1994 he gave a plenary lecture at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Physics in Paris. He is a member of the Societas Scientiarum Islandica and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences.

His doctoral counts Robert Seiringer.

He is married to the professor of lexicography at Reykjavík University Guðrún Kvaran.