Felix Otto
Mathematician, Academic
1966 –
Who is Felix Otto?
Felix Otto is a German mathematician.
He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his Ph.D. thesis in 1993 under the supervision of Stephan Luckhaus. After postdoctoral studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1997 he became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1999 to 2010 he was professor for applied mathematics at the University of Bonn, and currently serves as one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig.
In 2006, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.
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- Born
- May 19, 1966
Munich - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Bonn
- New York University
- Employment
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Bonn
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on July 23, 2013
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