Kurt Johansson#
| Membership Number: | 5185 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kth.se/profile/kurtj |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2001 Full Professor of Mathematics at KTH
- 1998 - 2003 Senior researcher in rigorous mathematical physics, financed by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR)
- 1993 - 2001 Associate Professor at KTH
- 1988 - 1993 Associate Professor in Uppsala and Resesarcher at KTH
Fields of Scholarship
- Probability theory
- Mathematical physics
- Random matrix theory
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Wallenberg Prize from the Swedish Mathematical Society
- July 2000 Invited speaker at the 3rd European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona
- 2000 Wallmarkska Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2000 The Rollo Davidson Prize, University of Cambridge
- 2002 The Göran Gustafsson Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- August 2002 Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2002
- August 2004 Invited to deliver one of the 2004 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lectures, Toronto
- 2006 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2013 Eva and Lars Garding’s Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund
