Eduard Zehnder#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 5741 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Eduard Zehnder passed away November 22, 2024.
Positions Held
- Since 2006 Professor emeritus, ETH Zürich
- 1988 - 2006 Professor, ETH Zürich
- 1986 - 1988 Director of the Institute “Pure and Applied Mathematics”, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
- 1979 - 1980 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Natural Sciences
- 1978 Guest Professor, Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette,
- 1977 - 1986 Professor (Chair for Analysis), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 1976 - 1977 Associate Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 1972 - 1976 Lecturer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1972 - 1974 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Natural Sciences
- 1971 - 1972 Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Fields of Scholarship
- Nonlinear analysis
- Dynamical systems
- Symplectic geometry
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Plenary Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
- 1999 Member of the German Academy Leopoldina
- 2008 Bergman Lecturer, Stanford University
- 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
