Wendelin Werner | |
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 Werner in 2007 | |
| Born | (1968-09-23)23 September 1968 (age 56) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie |
| Awards | Heinz Gumin Prize (de) (2016) Fields Medal (2006) Pólya Prize (2006) Loève Prize (2005) Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand (2003) Fermat Prize (2001) EMS Prize (2000) Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet (1999) Davidson Prize (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | CNRS Université Paris-Sud ETH Zurich University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Quelques propriétés du mouvement brownien plan (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-François Le Gall |
| Doctoral students | |
Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born Frenchmathematician working on random processes such as self-avoidingrandom walks,Brownian motion,Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories inprobability theory andmathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25thInternational Congress of Mathematicians inMadrid,Spain he received theFields Medal "for his contributions to the development ofstochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory". He is currentlyRouse Ball professor of Mathematics at theUniversity of Cambridge.
Werner was born on 23 September 1968 inCologne,West Germany. His parents moved to France when he was nine months old and he became a French citizen in 1977.[1] After aclasse préparatoire atLycée Hoche inVersailles, he studied atÉcole Normale Supérieure from 1987 to 1991. His 1993doctorate was written at theUniversité Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and supervised byJean-François Le Gall. Werner was a researcher at theCNRS (National Center of Scientific Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique) from 1991 to 1997, during which he also held a two-year Leibniz Fellowship, at theUniversity of Cambridge. He was Professor attheUniversity of Paris-Sud from 1997 to 2013 and also taught at theÉcole Normale Supérieure from 2005 to 2013.[2][3] He was then Professor at theETH Zürich from 2013 to 2023.
Werner has received several awards besides theFields Medal, including theRollo Davidson Prize in 1998, thePrix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet in 1999, theFermat Prize in 2001, theGrand Prix Jacques Herbrand of theFrench Academy of Sciences in 2003, theLoève Prize in 2005, the 2006SIAMGeorge Pólya Prize with his collaboratorsGregory Lawler andOded Schramm, and theHeinz Gumin Prize (de) in 2016.
He became a member of theFrench Academy of Sciences in 2008. He is also a member of other academies of sciences, including theAcademy of Sciences Leopoldina and theBerlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and is an honorary fellow ofGonville and Caius College.[2][3][4] He was elected aForeign Member of the Royal Society in 2020.[5]
He also had a part in the 1982 French filmLa Passante du Sans-Souci.[1] He has anErdős–Bacon number of six.
