Felix Otto (mathematician)
{{short description|German mathematician}}
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|name = Felix Otto
|image = Felix Otto.jpg
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|caption = Otto at Oberwolfach, 2009
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|5|19|df=y}}
|birth_place = Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
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|nationality = German
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|field = Mathematics
|work_institution = Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences,
University of Leipzig,
New York University,
Carnegie Mellon University,
University of Bonn,
University of California, Santa Barbara
|doctoral_advisor = Stephan Luckhaus
|doctoral_students =
|known_for = Otto–Villani theorem
Otto calculus
|prizes = Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2006
Blaise Pascal Medal, European Academy of Sciences (2017)
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Felix Otto (born 19 May 1966) is a German mathematician.
Biography
He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his PhD thesis in 1993 under the supervision of Stephan Luckhaus.{{MathGenealogy|id=27506}}
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.
Work
Otto specialises in materials science, including work on the theory of partial differential equations.{{Cite web |title=International award for Leipzig mathematician Felix Otto |url=https://idw-online.de/en/news698252 |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=idw-online.de}} He is known for his work on the Otto–Villani theorem and the invention of the Otto calculus.
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.{{cite web |title= Felix Otto |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/felix-otto/|publisher=German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |access-date=26 May 2021}} In 2024, he received the Cantor medal by the German Mathematical Society.{{cite web |title=Felix Otto receives the Cantor Medal |url=https://www.mis.mpg.de/news/felix-otto-receives-the-cantor-medal|publisher=Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences|access-date=29 June 2024}}
References
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- {{in lang|de}} [https://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/preise/leibniz_preis/2006/otto.html DFG portrait]
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Category:20th-century German mathematicians
Category:University of Bonn alumni
Category:Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Bonn
Category:University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Category:Studienstiftung alumni
Category:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Category:21st-century German mathematicians
Category:Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Category:Max Planck Institute directors
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