Helmut H.W. Hofer#
Membership Number: | 2514 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Section: | MATHEMATICS |
Elected: | 2008 |

Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2006-2009 Silver Professor, Courant Institute (New York University)
- 1997-2006 Professor, Courant Institute (New York University)
- 1993-1997 Professor, ETH Zurich
- 1989-1993 Professor, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
- 1988-1989 Professor, Rutgers University
- 1987-1988 Associate Professor, Rutgers University
- 1985-1987 Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
- 1983-1985 Lecturer, University of Bath
- 1981-1983 Oberassistent, Univeristy of Zurich
- 1981 Ph.D. University of Zurich
Fields of Scholarship
- Symplectic geometry and topology
- Dynamical systems
- Partial differential equations
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Heinz Hopf Prize
- 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2008 Member of the Academia Europaea
- The 1999 Ostrowski Prize
- 1987-1988 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship