Kai Cieliebak - Biography#

Kai Cieliebak is a mathematician who works at University of Augsburg. His research focuses on symplectic and contact geometry, Hamiltonian dynamics, string topology, symplectic field theory, and pseudoholomorphic curve theory.

Cieliebak studied mathematics and physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, receiving the degree of Diplom-Mathematiker in 1993. In 1996 he obtained his Ph.D. at ETH Zürich, and from 1996 to 1997 he was a Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor at Harvard.

In 1997 he began working in risk management at the Swiss Bank Corporation, and in 1998 he started a postdoc position at IBM. In 1999 he became a Szego Assistant Professor at Stanford. In 2001 he accepted a professorship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and in 2012 a professorship at the University Augsburg.

Editor of Inventiones Mathematicae.