Martin Hairer

Martin Hairer (born 14 November 1975) is an Austrian mathematician who deals with stochastic partial differential equations with applications in statistical mechanics.

Hairer went to Geneva to school. He is the son of the mathematician Ernst Hairer (Professor in Geneva). He studied Physics with Mathematics as a subsidiary subject (degree in physics in 1998, Systèmes Mécaniques Couples à des bains thermiques de températures différentes ) at the University of Geneva, where he received his doctorate in physics at Jean -Pierre Eckmann 2001 ( Comportement Asymptotique d' Equations á Dérivées Partial Stochastiques ). He is a professor at the University of Warwick. After that, he was an assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Geneva and from 2002 as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick, where he was a lecturer in 2004, associate professor in 2006, 2007 and 2010 Reader with full professorship. In 2009, he was Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has been a visiting professor at the Technical University of Berlin (2009 ), in Toulouse, Rennes, at Imperial College and in China.

In 2008 he was awarded the Whitehead Prize and the Leverhulme price. In 2009 he was awarded the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society. He received a 2006 ( five-year award ) EPSRC ( Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ) Advanced Research Fellowship. In 2013 he was awarded the Fermat Prize for his contributions to the analysis of stochastic partial differential equations, in particular for well-posedness of problems, the regularity of the solutions and convergence to equilibrium ( eulogy ).

He is co-editor of Probability Theory and Related Fields ( from 2008), Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications and the Annales Henri Poincaré ( Ser.B ) of the Institut Henri Poincaré (from 2011).

He is married to the mathematician Xue -Mei Li and develops software for the Macintosh ( audio editing, Amadeus at HairerSoft, 1997 ).