Biography:Hajo Leschke

Hajo Leschke (born 1945 in Wentorf bei Hamburg) is a German mathematical physicist and semi-retired professor of theoretical physics at the FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). He is best known for some rigorous results on certain model systems in quantum (statistical) mechanics obtained by functional-analytic and probabilistic techniques (jointly with his students and other coworkers). His research topics include: Peierls Transition, Functional Formulations of Quantum and Stochastic Dynamics, Pekar–Fröhlich Polaron, Quantum Spin Chains, Feynman–Kac Formulas, (Random) Schrödinger Operators, Landau-Level Broadening, Lifschitz Tails, Anderson Localization, Fermionic Entanglement Entropies, Quantum Spin Glasses.

Academic education

Leschke studied physics and mathematics at the Universität Hamburg and graduated with a diploma in physics (1970). The underlying thesis was supervised by Wolfgang Kundt (born 1931). He received his doctorate in physics (1975) with thesis supervisor Uwe Brandt (1944–1997) at the (Technische) Universität Dortmund, where he also earned the habilitation in physics (1981). His studies were supported by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and a Kurt-Hartwig-Siemers–Wissenschaftspreis on the recommendation of Pascual Jordan (1902-1980).