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Felix Otto - More Information

1997	A. P. Sloan Research Fellowship
2001	Max-Planck Forschungspreis
2006	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis
2007	Collatz-Prize
2017	Blaise Pascal Medal for Mathematics of the European Academy of Sciences
2018	Prof. Luigi Tartufari International Prize for Mathematics from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
2020	Levi-Civita Prize for the Mathematical and Mechanical Sciences
since 2007	Member of the Academy of Science of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen
since 2008	Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
since 2014	Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
since 2015	Member of Academia Europaea

1998	Universität Erlangen (C4-Professor)
1999	University of Wisconsin-Madison (Full Professor)
1999	University of Texas at Austin (Full Professor)
1999	University of Chicago (Full Professor)

2000–2005	Nonlinearity
2002–2008	SIAM Journal for Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
2010–2018	Journal of Functional Analysis
since 1999	Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, since 2020 Editor in chief
Since 2011	Journal of Evolution Equations
Since 2012	Journal of Nonlinear Science
Since 2014	La collection Maths and Applications, SMAi (Comité éditorial)
Since 2015	Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Consulting editor)
Since 2020	Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations

MFO scientific committee (2010-2024), chair (2016-2024)
DFG Review Board ‘Natural Science - Mathematics’ (2012-2020)
DFG reviewer in the evaluation process “Universities of Excellence” (2019)
Reviewer for ERC Advanced Grant
SIAM Council (2014-2019)
Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Materials Sciences (2021-2023)
Member of the Selection Committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme (2021-2029)
Member of Program Committee for ICM 2022
Selection Committee for the Georg Cantor medal, 2012, 2014, and 2019 Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)
Selection Committee for the Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation (2013-2017)
Shaw Prize Committee for Mathematics (2017-2019)
Advisory Board of the Physics Faculty, University of Leipzig (2012--)
Scientific Advisory Board of the Graduate School AICES Aachen
Advisory Board SISSA, Trieste (2017-2023)
Board member for 'School of Excellence' in Napoli (PhD program for Mathematics, Physics or Engineering) (2020--)
Selection Committee for Max Planck Research Group Leader positions and for free-floating Max Planck Research Groups (2018--)
Member of Program Committee for ICM 2022