Biography:Christian Reiher

Christian Reiher
Christian Reiher 2012
Born	(1984-04-19) April 19, 1984 Starnberg, Bavaria, West Germany
Nationality	Germany
Alma mater	University of Rostock LMU Munich
Known for	Proving Kemnitz's conjecture
Awards	European Prize in Combinatorics (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Hamburg
Doctoral advisor	Hans-Dietrich Gronau

Christian Reiher (born April 19, 1984, in Starnberg) is a Germany mathematician. He is the fifth most successful participant in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won four gold medals in the years 2000 to 2003 and a bronze medal in 1999.

Just after finishing his Abitur, he proved Kemnitz's conjecture, an important problem in the theory of zero-sums. He went on to earn his Diplom in mathematics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Reiher received his Ph.D. from the University of Rostock under supervision of Hans-Dietrich Gronau in February 2010 (Thesis: A proof of the theorem according to which every prime number possesses property B) and works now at the University of Hamburg.

Selected publications

•     (2007), "On Kemnitz' conjecture concerning lattice-points in the plane", The Ramanujan Journal 13 (1–3): 333–337, doi:10.1007/s11139-006-0256-y .

External links

• Christian Reiher at the Mathematics Genealogy Project