Münster Research Fellows

October 2024
Host: Ralf Schindler

We are pleased that Prof. Dr. Mirna Džamonja, Associate Researcher at IHPST (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) and IRIF (Université Paris Cité), member of the Academy of Science and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBiH), joins us as a Münster Research Fellow. Mirna Džamonja is a logician who mostly works in set theory, specialising in combinatorial set theory. She is also interested in connections of set theory with other fields of logic and mathematics and has published in model theory, topology and analysis.

September 2024
Host: Ralf Schindler

We welcome Prof. Dr. John R. Steel (UC Berkeley) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is one of the best set theorists worldwide. He keeps producing seminal results in descriptive set theory as well as in inner model theory. In 2015, he received the Hausdorff medal (together with R.B. Jensen) for the paper "K without the measurable." He has been a coorganizer of the "Münster meetings in inner model theory" for many years, putting a lot of energy into the promotion of young students.

July to August 2024
Host: Zakhar Kabluchko

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Alexander Marynych (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine) to Mathematics Münster as a Münster Research Fellow. Previously, he spent several months at the Cluster as a Humboldt Fellow. Alexander Marynych is a Ukrainian probabilist who continues the traditions of the world-famous Kyiv school in the theory of stochastic processes.

July 2022 to  July 2024
Host: Angela Stevens

We are pleased that Prof. Dr. Kyungkeun Kang (Yonsei University) joins us as a Münster Research Fellow. His main research areas are Navier-Stokes equations, cross-diffusion systems and geometric maps. He is full professor at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), one of the three most prestigious institutions in the country. Long-term collaborations with Kyungkeun Kang have existed since the Cluster start in 2019. He regularly visits Münster for research stays.

June 2024
Host: Ralf Schindler

We welcome Prof. Dr. Dima Sinapova from Rutgers University as a Münster Research Fellow. She is one of the leading experts worldwide on the study of aspects of the failure of the Singular Cardinal Hypothesis (SCH). During her stay at our Cluster in June 2024 she will continue her collaborations with Ralf Schindler.

February and March 2024
Host: Martin Huesmann

We welcome Dr. Thomas Leblé (Université de Paris Cité) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is a promising mathematician in probability theory and mathematical physics. He is particularly known for his work on Coulomb and Riesz gases establishing large deviation principles, fluctuation results as well as rigidity and hyperuniformity properties.

October and December 2023
Host: Mario Ohlberger

We are pleased that Martin J. Gander (University of Geneva) joins us as Münster Research Fellow. His research focuses on developing and analyzing numerical algorithms for solving partial differential equations, particularly in the context of high-performance computing. He has made significant contributions to areas such as domain decomposition methods and parallel algorithms for large-scale simulations.

September 2023 to September 2024
Host: Katrin Tent and Aleksandra Kwiatkowska

We are honoured that Prof. Dr. George Willis (University of Newcastle, Australia) joins our Cluster as Münster Research Fellow. He is an outstanding researcher, who has essentially single-handedly revolutionized the subject of totally disconnected locally compact (t.d.l.c) groups. In 2023 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award for his stay in Münster. He regularly visits Mathematics Münster for research stays.

July to August 2023
Host: Bianca Santoro and Hans-Joachim Hein

We welcome Prof. Dr. Duong H. Phong (Columbia University) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is known for his research on complex analysis, partial differential equations, string theory and complex geometry. Some of his best-known results are the Fefferman-Phong theorem on the spectral counting function of subelliptic differential operators and the D'Hoker-Phong formula for determinants of Laplacians on hyperbolic Riemann surfaces.

June to July 2023
Host: Ralf Schindler and Wilhelm Winter

We welcome Prof. Dr. Ilijas Farah (York University, Toronto) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is a world leading expert working on the interface of set theory, model theory, and operator algebras. His research work spans an extremely broad range of topics in set theory, model theory, operator algebras and their interactions.

February  to December 2023
Host: Siegfried Echterhoff

We welcome Prof. Dr. Alcides Buss (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is an excellent researcher in the field of Operator Algebras. There is a long standing collaboration with researchers in Münster which lead to twelve joint publications/preprints. Among these are important publications about exotic crossed products and amenability of group actions on operator algebras.

March to April 2023
Host: Gerold Alsmeyer

We welcome Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Iksanov (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is one of the most prolific and distinguished probabilists in Ukraine. His research focuses on problems related to random discrete structures with applications to stochastic processes, combinatorics and number theory.

November 2022
Host: Ralf Schindler

Prof. Dr. Grigor Sargsyan (Mathematics Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences) joined our Cluster as a Münster Research Fellow. Over the last one and a half decades, he has been one of the leading researchers in the area of analyzing HOD of determinacy models, hod mice, and the core model induction.

July to August 2022
Host: Christopher Deninger

Prof. Dr. Masanori Morishita (Kyushu University, Japan) visited us as a Münster Research Fellow. He is the leading authority in the field of Arithmetic Topology founded by Yuri Manin and Barry Mazur, which explores analogies between number theory and 3-dimensional topology. His Springer book "Knots and Primes" is the standard reference in the field.

July 2022
Host: Gerold Alsmeyer

Prof. Dr. Kilian Raschel (CNRS, Université d'Angers) joined our Cluster as a Münster Research Fellow for the second time. He works on the connections between combinatorics and probability, a principal topic being random walks in cones seen from a combinatorial and a probabilistic point of view.

June 2022
Host: Ralf Schindler

We are honoured that Prof. Menachem Magidor (Hebrew University) visited our Cluster as a Münster Research Fellow. He is one of the most prominent set theorists and produced breakthrough results on cardinal arithmetic, on forcing axioms, on inner model theory, on various types of ideals and combinatorial principles, but also in the theory of uncountable abelian groups and generalized logics. In addition to his work in pure logic and set theory he made contributions to the applications of logic to computer science.

April to May 2022
Host: Benedikt Wirth

Prof. Dr. Rustum Choksi (McGill University) stayed at our Cluster as a Münster Research Fellow. He is a leading figure in the applied calculus of variations with contributions from mathematical materials science all the way to mathematical image processing.

October to December 2021
Host: Gustav Holzegel

Dr. Claude Warnick (University of Cambridge) joined our Cluster as Münster Research Fellow. He studies non-linear partial differential equations, specifically the Einstein equations of general relativity. He is mainly known for his papers on asymptotically anti-de Sitter space times and developing a rigorous theory of quasinormal modes for a large class of black hole spacetimes.

September to November 2021
Host: Wilhelm Winter

We were delighted to welcome Prof. Nadia Larsen (University of Oslo) as a Münster Research Fellow. She is a highly renowned expert in operator algebras, in particular in semigroup C*-algebras and their equilibrium states.
 

Juli 2021
Host: Gerold Alsmeyer

Dr. Kilian Raschel (CNRS, Université de Tours und Université d'Orléans) war Münster Research Fellow unseres Clusters. Er arbeitet an den Verbindungen zwischen Kombinatorik und Wahrscheinlichkeit. Ein Hauptthema sind Random Walks in Kegeln aus kombinatorischer und probabilistischer Sicht.

Juni bis Juli 2021
Host: Urs Hartl

Prof. Dr. Ambrus Pál (Imperial College London) war Münster Reseach Fellow unseres Clusters. Er ist ein international führender Experte auf dem Gebiet der Theorie der p-adischen Kohomologien und der Funktionsfeldarithmetik.

April 2019 bis April 2021
Host: Benedikt Wirth

Prof. Dr. Stephan Luckhaus (Universität Leipzig) bereicherte unseren Cluster als Münster Research Fellow. Der renommierte Mathematiker, dessen Forschung verschiedene mathematische Gebiete vereint, brachte seine Expertise unter anderem in das Fokusprogramm 2021 "Geometry and PDEs: from theory to applications" ein.

Januar bis Juli 2019
Host: Katrin Tent

Prof. Dr. Matthias Aschenbrenner (UCLA) gehörte für sieben Monate als Münster Research Fellow zur Gruppe von Prof. Dr. Dr. Katrin Tent. Seine Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Modelltheorie, umfasst aber vielfältige Bezüge zu anderen Bereichen der Mathematik. Oft verwendet er Ergebnisse und Methoden aus der mathematischen Logik.

Juli 2019
Host: Angela Stevens

Prof. Dr. Arnd Scheel (University of Minnesota) war Münster Research Fellow unseres Clusters. Er ist international bekannt für seine Entdeckungen mathematischer Prinzipien der Selbstorganisation, insbesondere der Dynamik von Mustern und Wellen in komplexen Systemen.