Felix Otto#
| Membership Number: | 4162 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mis.mpg.de/applan/research.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2010 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- 2006 - 2009 Managing director of the cluster of excellence `Hausdorff Center for Mathematics', Univ. of Bonn, Germany
- 2002 - 2006 Speaker SFB 611 'Singular phenomena and scaling in mathematical models', Univ. of Bonn, Germany
- 1999 - 2010 Full Professor (tenure, C4, since 2008 W3), Univ. of Bonn, Germany
- 1998 - 1999 Full Professor (tenure), Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
- 1997 - 1998 Assistant Professor (tenure track), Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
- 1996 - 1997 Postdoctoral Associate, Courant Institute, New York, USA
- 1996 Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, USA
- 1995 - 1996 Visiting Scholar, Courant Institute, New York, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Micromagnetics
- Coarsening
- Stochastic homogenization
- Hydrodynamic limit
- Viscous thin films
- Rayleigh-Benard convection
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Collatz price of CICIAM
- 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize of the DFG
- 2001 Max Planck Research Prize
- 1997 A. P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- Since 2014 Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Since 2008 Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Since 2007 Member of Academy of Science of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Offers for Full Professorship at
- University of Erlangen 1998
- University of Wisconsin-Madison 1999
- University of Texas at Austin 1999
- University of Chicago 1999
