Vita
- 1987 Diplom in Mathematics, Bonn University
- 1989 PhD, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
- 1989-1990 Visiting Ass. Prof., Carnegie Mellon University
- 1990-1993 Postdoc, SFB 256, Bonn University
- 1993-1994 Visiting Member, IAS Princeton
- 1994 Full Professor, Freiburg University
- 1995 Full Professor, ETH Zürich
- 1996-2008 Director, MPI Mathematics in the Sciences
- 2008- Full Professor, Bonn University
Awards
- 1992 Prize of the European Mathematical Society
- 1993 Max-Planck Research Prize (jointly with V. Šverák)
- 1999 Member of the Academy of Berlin-Brandenburg
- 1999 Collatz prize of CICIAM
- 2000 Leibniz prize
- 2002 Member of the Academy Leopoldina
- 2013 Heinz-Gumin prize of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation
- 2014 Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
- 2017 Teaching Award University of Bonn
- 2018 Member of the European Academy of Science