Martin Hairer

workplaces = École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneImperial College LondonUniversity of WarwickNew York University is an Austrian-British mathematician and mathematical physicist 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. In 2014 he was awarded the Fields Medal, one of the highest honours a mathematician can achieve. In 2020 he won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.

Early life and education Hairer was born in Geneva, Switzerland. and later continued to maintain the software in addition to his academic work; it continued to be widely used .

Under the name HairerSoft, he develops Macintosh software. Member of the scientific steering committee of ETHZ-ITS (2013–2019) Institut Henri Poincaré, member of scientific steering committee (2012–2020) Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, member of steering committee (2013–2021) Editor, Probability Theory and Related Fields Editor, Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications Editor, Annales Henri Poincaré Ser. B Editor, Electronic Journal of Probability Editor, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (December 2006 and February 2014) Visiting Professor, Technische Universität Berlin (July 2009) Minerva Lectures, Columbia University (February 2014) Euler Lecture, Zuse Institute Berlin (May 2014) Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (July 2014) Lévy Lecture, Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (July 2014) Fields Medal lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul (August 2014) Collingwood Lecture, Durham University (February 2015) 2007 – Editors' Choice Award, Macworld 2008 – Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society 2008 – Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust 2009 – Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2012 – Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, Leverhulme Trust 2013 – Fermat Prize, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse 2014 – Consolidator grant, European Research Council 2014 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014 2014 – Fröhlich Prize, London Mathematical Society 2014 – Fields Medal 2015 – Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2015 – Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015 – Member of the Academia Europaea 2016 – Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire 2019 – Substantive Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire 2021 – Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2022 – King Faisal Prize 2022 – Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics 2025 – Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society.

Personal life

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