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
Email, Phone/Fax:
+49 (0) 341 - 9959
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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
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