!!Gerd Faltings - Biography
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Gerd Faltings was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1954. After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978, he completed his studies with a doctorate under Hans-Joachim Nastold. In 1978 - 1979, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Upon his return to Münster, he became an assistant to Professor Nastold in 1979 and earned his habilitation in 1981. In 1982, he was appointed to the University of Wuppertal and, at the age of 27, became the youngest full professor of mathematics in Germany. In 1985, he accepted a position at Princeton University in the United States. He returned to Germany in 1994, where he has since been conducting research at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and teaching at the University of Bonn. Since 2023, he has been Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.