
Pattern formation, energy landscapes, and scaling laws
Head:
Felix Otto
Contact: Email
Phone:
+49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 950
Address:
Inselstr. 22
04103 Leipzig
Administrative Assistant:
Katja Heid
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Felix Otto - More Information
Awards
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 |
Offers
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) |
Editorships
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 |
Service to the Community (selected)
- MFO scientific committee (since 2010--), chair (since 2016)
- 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--)
- Member of the Selection Committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme (2021-2029)
- 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
Supervised PhD students
- Ruben Cantero-Alvarez
- Lukas Döring
- Jörg Drewenski
- Wolf-Patrick Düll
- Elias Esselborn
- Arianna Giunti
- Manuel Gnann
- Natalie Grunewald
- Hans Knüpfer
- Tim Laux
- Christian Löschcke
- Georg Menz
- Camilla Nobili
- Patrick Penzler
- Tobias Rump
- Christian Seis
- Thilo Simon
- Jutta Steiner
- Thomas Viehmann
- Claudia Raithel
- Nicolas Clozeau
- Maxime Prod'homme
- Pablo Linares