Karl-Theodor Sturm#
| Membership Number: | 6214 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://wt.iam.uni-bonn.de/sturm/home/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1989 PhD University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1989 - 1990 Oberassistant University of Zurich
- 1993 Habilitation University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1990 - 1995 Post-Doc University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1995 - 1996 Visiting professor University of Bonn
- 1996 - 1997 Post-Doc MPI Leipzig
- 1997 - present Professor University of Bonn
- 2002 - 2012 Vice Chairman of Collaborative Research Center SFB 611, Bonn
- 2007 - 2010 Managing Director of Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn
- 2012 - 2019 Coordinator (Managing Director) of the excellence cluster Hausdorff Center for
- Mathematics
Fields of Scholarship
- Optimal transport
- Metric measure space
- Probability theory
- Mathematics
- Synthetic curvature bounds
- Diffusion process
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG
- Visiting and research positions: Stanford, Zurich, MPI Leipzig
- Visiting professor: Toulouse, Paris
- 2016-22 ERC Advanced Grant, Metric measure spaces and Ricci curvature - analytic, geometric and probabilistic challenges
- 2020 Plenary Speaker European Congress of Mathematics
