Karl-Theodor Sturm is a German mathematician working in stochastic analysis.
He obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Heinz Bauer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1989.[1]
Since 1997 he is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bonn, where he participates in the Collaborative Research Center for Singular Phenomena and Scaling in Mathematical Models.[2] He is also a member of the board of directors of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics since 2010.[3]
With Jürgen Jost, Wilfrid Kendall, Umberto Mosco, and Michael Röckner, he is a co-author of the book New Directions in Dirichlet Forms (AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 1998, ISBN 9780821810613, MR1652277). He has also written highly cited papers on metric measure spaces.[4]