Herbert Spohn#
| Membership Number: | 5074 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www-m5.ma.tum.de/Allgemeines/HerbertSpohn |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - now Emeritus of Excellence, TU Munich
- 1998 - 2012 Full Professor, Chair of Mathematical Physics, Zentrum Mathematik, TU Munich
- 1982 - 1998 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich
- 8/1981 - 9/1982 IHES Bures-sur-Yvette, France, Heisenberg fellow, DFG
- 8/1980 -7/1981 Rutgers University, New Brunswick N.J., USA, Heisenberg fellow, DFG
- 5/1979 - 7/1979 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich
- 9/1978 - 4/1979 Postdoc, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
- 9/1977 - 8/1978 Postdoc, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA
- 2/1976 - 8/1977 Postdoc, Yeshiva University, New York, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Integrable stochastic systems
- Dynamics of stochastic particle systems
- Kinetic equations
- Hydrodynamic limit
- Interface motion
- Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Boltzmann Medal, C3 Commission of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
- 2017 Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université Paris-Diderot
- 2017 Max-Planck Medal, German Physical Society
- 2015 Henri-Poincaré-Prize, International Association of Mathematical Physics
- 2014 Georg-Cantor-Medaille, Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
- 2011 Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université Paris-Dauphine
- 2011 Premio Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize, Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Fisica
- 2011 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society
- 2011 Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics, American Mathematical Society
