Felix Otto (mathematician)

Felix Otto
Felix Otto in 2009
Born	(1966-05-19) May 19, 1966 (age 55) Munich, Bavaria
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Bonn
Known for
Awards	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2006 Blaise Pascal Medal, European Academy of Sciences (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	New York University, Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisor	Stephan Luckhaus

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

Biography[]

He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his Ph.D. thesis in 1993 under the supervision of Stephan Luckhaus.^[1] After postdoctoral studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1997 he became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1999 to 2010 he was professor for applied mathematics at the University of Bonn, and currently serves as one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig.

Honours[]

In 2006, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. In 2009, he was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society. In 2008 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.^[2]

References[]

• (in German) DFG portrait

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