Münster Research Fellows

February 2025, February to December 2023
Host: Wilhelm Winter (2025), Siegfried Echterhoff (2023)

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

October 2024
Host: Ralf Schindler

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), 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

Prof. Dr. John R. Steel (UC Berkeley) 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

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

July 2022 to  July 2024
Host: Angela Stevens

Prof. Dr. Kyungkeun Kang's (Yonsei University) 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

Prof. Dr. Dima Sinapova from Rutgers University is one of the leading experts worldwide on the study of aspects of the failure of the Singular Cardinal Hypothesis (SCH). In a sequence of recent papers she has produced dramatic new results on having patterns of the failure of SCH together with stationary reflection and the tree property, a key topic of current-day set theory.

February and March 2024
Host: Martin Huesmann

Dr. Thomas Leblé (Université de Paris Cité) 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

Prof. Dr. Martin J. Gander's (University of Geneva) research focuses on developing and analysing 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

Prof. Dr. George Willis (University of Newcastle, Australia) 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

Prof. Dr. Duong H. Phong (Columbia University) 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

Prof. Dr. Ilijas Farah (York University, Toronto) 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.

July 2019 and June 2023
Host: Angela Stevens

Prof. Dr. Arnd Scheel (University of Minnesota) is internationally renowned for his outstanding research in the field of mathematical analysis of complex infinite dimensional systems. He succeeded in discovering mathematical principles of self-organization, in particular the dynamics of patterns and waves in complex systems. He regularly visits Mathematics Münster for research stays. In 2016, he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award for his stay in Münster.

March to April 2023
Host: Gerold Alsmeyer

Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Iksanov (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) 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) has been  one of the leading researchers in the area of analyzing HOD of determinacy models, hod mice, and the core model induction over the last one and a half decade.

July to August 2022
Host: Christopher Deninger

Prof. Dr. Masanori Morishita (Kyushu University, Japan) 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 2021 and July 2022
Host: Gerold Alsmeyer

Prof. Dr. Kilian Raschel (CNRS, Université d'Angers) 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. An essential part in his research is the study of generating functions by counting paths.

June 2022
Host: Ralf Schindler

Prof. Menachem Magidor (Hebrew University) 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) is a leading figure in the applied calculus of variations with contributions from mathematical materials science all the way to mathematical image processing. He is particularly well-known for his work on pattern formation in different contexts.

October to December 2021
Host: Gustav Holzegel

Dr. Claude Warnick (University of Cambridge) 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

Prof. Nadia Larsen (University of Oslo) is a highly renowned expert in operator algebras, in particular in semigroup C*-algebras and their equilibrium states. She has broad interests, having also worked on problems originating in signal processing (wavelet theory) and in number theory.
 

June to July 2021
Host: Urs Hartl

Prof. Dr. Ambrus Pál (Imperial College London) is an international leading expert in the theory of p-adic cohomologies and function field arithmetic.

April 2019 to April 2021
Host: Benedikt Wirth

Prof. Dr. Stephan Luckhaus' (University of Leipzig) research combines various mathematical fields. He is well known for his achievements in harmonic maps, elliptic-parabolic systems, fluxes in porous media, homogenization and phase transitions. He contributed to the 2021 Focus Programme "Geometry and PDEs: from theory to applications" through his work on partial differential equations that model physical or biomedical processes.

January to July 2019
Host: Katrin Tent

Prof. Dr. Matthias Aschenbrenner's (UCLA) work centers in and around model theory, but has branched into other fields of mathematics, often using results and methods originating in mathematical logic. His most spectacular achievements arising from a long-term collaboration with L. van den Dries and J. van der Hoeven, has culminated in the book Asymptotic Differential Algebra and Model Theory of Transseries.