Felix Otto

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Felix Otto is a German mathematician.

He was born in 1966 in Munich. He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his Ph.D. thesis in 1993. After postdoctoral studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1997 he became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1999 he became professor for applied mathematics at the University of Bonn.

In 2006, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.

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