Karl-Theodor Sturm

Who is Karl-Theodor Sturm?

Karl-Theodor Sturm is a German mathematician working in stochastic analysis.

He obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Heinz Bauer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1989.

Since 1997 he is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bonn, where he participates in the Collaborative Research Center for Singular Phenomena and Scaling in Mathematical Models. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics since 2010.

With Jürgen Jost, Wilfrid Kendall, Umberto Mosco, and Michael Röckner, he is a co-author of the book New Directions in Dirichlet Forms. He has also written highly cited papers on metric measure spaces.