Biography:Martin Hairer

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Professor

Sir Martin Hairer

KBE FRS
Hairer in 2014
Born (1975-11-14) 14 November 1975 (age 50)
Geneva, Switzerland
Citizenship
  • Austrian
  • British
EducationUniversity of Geneva
Spouse(s)
Xue-Mei Li (m. 2003)
[1][2]
Awards
  • Whitehead Prize (2008)
  • Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008)
  • Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009)
  • Fermat Prize (2013)
  • Fröhlich Prize (2014)
  • Fields Medal (2014)
  • Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2021)
  • King Faisal Prize (2022)
  • ESI Medal (2022)
  • Sylvester Medal (2025)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Imperial College London
University of Warwick
New York University[1]
ThesisComportement Asymptotique d'Équations à Dérivées Partielles Stochastiques (2001)
Doctoral advisorJean-Pierre Eckmann[4]
Websitehairer.org

Sir Martin Hairer KBE FRS (born 14 November 1975)[1] is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and at Imperial College London. He previously held appointments at the University of Warwick and the Courant Institute of New York University.[5][6][7][8] In 2014 he was awarded the Fields Medal,[9] one of the highest honours a mathematician can achieve.[10] In 2020 he won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.[11]

Early life and education

Hairer was born in Geneva, Switzerland.[1] He attended the Collège Claparède Geneva where he received his high school diploma in 1994. He entered a school science competition with sound editing software that was developed into Amadeus,[12] and later continued to maintain the software in addition to his academic work; it continued to be widely used as of 2020.[11] He then attended the University of Geneva, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in July 1998, Master of Science in Physics in October 1998 and PhD in Physics under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann in November 2001.[4][13]

Research and career

Hairer is active in the field of stochastic partial differential equations in particular, and in stochastic analysis and stochastic dynamics in general.[14] He has worked on variants of Hörmander's theorem, systematisation of the construction of Lyapunov functions for stochastic systems, development of a general theory of ergodicity for non-Markovian systems, multiscale analysis techniques, theory of homogenisation, theory of path sampling and theory of rough paths[14] and, in 2014, on his theory of regularity structures.[15]

Under the name HairerSoft, he develops Macintosh software.[12]

Affiliations

Four Fields medallists left to right (Artur Avila, Martin Hairer (at back), Maryam Mirzakhani, with Maryam's daughter Anahita and Manjul Bhargava) at the ICM 2014 in Seoul

Awards and honours

  • 2006–2011 Advanced Research Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)[30]
  • 2007 – Editors' Choice Award, Macworld[31]
  • 2008 – Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society[32][33][34]
  • 2008 – Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust[35][36]
  • 2009 – Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[37]
  • 2012 – Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, Leverhulme Trust[38]
  • 2013 – Fermat Prize, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse[39][40]
  • 2014 – Consolidator grant, European Research Council[41]
  • 2014 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014[14]
  • 2014 – Fröhlich Prize, London Mathematical Society[42]
  • 2014 – Fields Medal[9]
  • 2015 – Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[43]
  • 2015 – Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences[44]
  • 2015 – Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[45]
  • 2015 – Member of the Academia Europaea[46]
  • 2016 – Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire[47][37]
  • 2017 – Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences[48]
  • 2019 – Substantive Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire[49]
  • 2021 – Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics[50][51]
  • 2022 – King Faisal Prize[52]
  • 2022 – Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics[53]
  • 2025 – Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society.[54]

Personal life

Hairer holds Austrian and British nationality, and speaks French, German and English; he married fellow mathematician Li Xue-Mei in 2003.[1][2] His father is Ernst Hairer, a mathematician at the University of Geneva.[55]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ",". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 2016. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U282027. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U282027.  (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Xue-Mei, Li (2017). "Xue-Mei Li: About me". http://www.xuemei.org. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Martin Hairer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Warwick Mathematics Institute. "Professor Martin Hairer, FRS". http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/martin_hairer/. 
  6. ↑ Eckmann, J.-P.; Hairer, M. (2001). "Uniqueness of the Invariant Measure for a Stochastic PDE Driven by Degenerate Noise". Communications in Mathematical Physics 219 (3): 523. doi:10.1007/s002200100424. Bibcode: 2001CMaPh.219..523E. 
  7. ↑ Martin Hairer's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
  8. ↑ Hairer, M.; Mattingly, J. (2006). "Ergodicity of the 2D Navier–Stokes equations with degenerate stochastic forcing". Annals of Mathematics 164 (3): 993. doi:10.4007/annals.2006.164.993. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel (2014). "IMU-Net 66b : Special issue on IMU Prizes and Medals at ICM 2014 in Seoul". https://www.mathunion.org/imu-net/archive/2014/imu-net-066b. 
  10. ↑ Daniel Saraga: The equation Tamer, in: Horizons, Swiss National Science Foundation No. 103, p. 26–7
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Sample, Ian (10 September 2020). "UK mathematician wins richest prize in academia". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/10/uk-mathematician-martin-hairer-wins-richest-prize-in-academia-breakthrough. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Amadeus – Audio waveform editors / sound and voice recorders for macOS X". hairersoft.com. https://www.hairersoft.com/. 
  13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 Hairer, Martin. "Curriculum Vitae". http://www.hairer.org/cv.pdf. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "Professor Martin Hairer FRS". London: Royal Society. 2014. https://royalsociety.org/people/martin-hairer-11561/. 
  15. ↑ Hairer, Martin (2014). "A theory of regularity structures". Inventiones Mathematicae 198 (2): 269–504. doi:10.1007/s00222-014-0505-4. Bibcode: 2014InMat.198..269H. 
  16. ↑ "Organisation of the Institute for Theoretical Studies – Institute for Theoretical Studies | ETH Zurich". Eth-its.ethz.ch. http://www.eth-its.ethz.ch/about-us/organisation.html. 
  17. ↑ Institut Henri Poincaré. "Members' directory". http://www.ihp.fr/en/directory/program. 
  18. ↑ Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. "Scientific Committee". http://www.mfo.de/about-the-institute/structure/scientific-committee. 
  19. ↑ Springer. "Probability Theory and Related Fields – Editorial Board". https://www.springer.com/mathematics/probability/journal/440?detailsPage=editorialBoard. 
  20. ↑ Springer. "Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications – Editorial Board". https://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/journal/30?detailsPage=editorialBoard. 
  21. ↑ Institute of Mathematical Statistics. "Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré". http://imstat.org/aihp/. 
  22. ↑ Electronic Journal of Probability. "Editorial Team". http://ejp.ejpecp.org/about/editorialTeam. 
  23. ↑ Springer. "Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations – Editorial Board". https://www.springer.com/mathematics/probability/journal/40072?detailsPage=editorialBoard. 
  24. ↑ Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn. "Lipschitz Lectures". http://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/lipschitz-hairer/. 
  25. ↑ Columbia University. "Minerva Lectures". http://www.math.columbia.edu/department/probability/seminar/minerva.html. 
  26. ↑ Zuse Institute, Berlin. "Euler-Vorlesung 2014". http://www.zib.de/Euler/2014/index.de.html. 
  27. ↑ Institute of Mathematical Statistics. "Awards – Special Lectures Winners". http://imstat.org/awards/lectures_winners.htm. 
  28. ↑ University of Buenos Aires. "37th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications". http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/spa2014/. 
  29. ↑ Warwick Mathematics Institute (21 October 2013). "Five Warwick mathematicians to speak at ICM 2014". http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/general/news/2013/#icm2014. 
  30. ↑ Warwick Mathematics Institute (29 May 2006). "EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship awarded to Martin Hairer". http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/general/news/2006.html#hairer. 
  31. ↑ Macworld (19 December 2007). "The 23rd Annual Editors' Choice Awards". http://www.macworld.com/article/1131153/eddyawards2007.html?page=3. 
  32. ↑ London Mathematical Society. "List of LMS prize winners: Whitehead Prize". http://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/list-lms-prize-winners#Whitehead_Prize. 
  33. ↑ London Mathematical Society (4 July 2008). "London Mathematical Society Prizes 2008". http://www.lms.ac.uk/news/2008/PR083Prizes_2008.pdf. 
  34. ↑ Warwick Mathematics Institute (6 July 2008). "Martin Hairer receives LMS Whitehead Prize". http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/general/news/2008/#hairerwhitehead. 
  35. ↑ Warwick Mathematics Institute (6 November 2008). "Martin Hairer wins Philip Leverhulme Prize". http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/general/news/2008/#hairerplp. 
  36. ↑ "Report of the Leverhulme Trustees 2008". http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/files/seealsodocs/231/LEVERHULME%20REPORT%202008.PDF. 
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Sheng, Yunhe. "Mathematician receives top honour". https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/01022017-1654/mathematician-receives-top-honour. 
  38. ↑ Warwick Mathematics Institute (27 November 2012). "Martin Hairer wins Leverhulme Research Leadership Award". http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/general/news/2012/. 
  39. ↑ Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (6 November 2013). "Prix Fermat 2013". http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/spip.php?article489&lang=en. 
  40. ↑ Warwick Mathematics Institute (10 November 2013). "Martin Hairer awarded 2013 Fermat Prize". http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/general/news/2013/#hairer-fermat. 
  41. ↑ Warwick Mathematics Institute (4 February 2014). "Martin Hairer & José Luis Rodrigo win ERC Consolidator grants". http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/general/news/2014/#erc-consolidate. 
  42. ↑ London Mathematical Society. "List of LMS prize winners: Fröhlich Prize". http://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/list-lms-prize-winners#FRÖHLICH_prize. 
  43. ↑ 2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows, retrieved 16 November 2015 .
  44. ↑ "ÖAW wählte 40 neue Mitglieder". http://www.oeaw.ac.at/oesterreichische-akademie-der-wissenschaften/die-oeaw/article/oeaw-waehlte-40-neue-mitglieder/. 
  45. ↑ "Nationalakademie Leopoldina ernennt neue Mitglieder". https://idw-online.de/de/news?print=1&id=647829. 
  46. ↑ "Martin Hairer – member of AE". https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Hairer_Martin. 
  47. ↑ "Honorary awards". https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/581724/2016_Honorary_awards_V4.pdf. 
  48. ↑ "Wydział III Nauk Ścisłych i Nauk o Ziemi PAN – Członkowie zagraniczni". http://czlonkowie.pan.pl/czlonkowie/sites/Wydzial.html?typ=3&department=3. 
  49. ↑ "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood". https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3357983. 
  50. ↑ Ian Sample (10 September 2020). "UK mathematician wins richest prize in academia". https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/10/uk-mathematician-martin-hairer-wins-richest-prize-in-academia-breakthrough. 
  51. ↑ Hayley Dunning (10 September 2020). "Imperial mathematician scoops $3m Breakthrough Prize". https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/203853/imperial-mathematician-scoops-3m-breakthrough-prize/. 
  52. ↑ King Faisal Prize 2022
  53. ↑ [1] "Medal Ceremony and Award Lecture of ESI Medal 2022"]. 13 November 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyG_TT2K0lw&list=PLjvY6sC_0lhIGErdJNXC0E5KiXfU4WKF8]. 
  54. ↑ Sylvester Medal 2025
  55. ↑ Wolchover, Natalie (2014-08-12). "In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music". Quanta Magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-noisy-equations-one-who-heard-music-20140812/. 

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