| Martin Hairer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 November 1975 |
| Residence | Kenilworth |
| Citizenship | Austrian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Alma mater | University of Geneva |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Pierre Eckmann |
| Notable awards |
Whitehead Prize (2008) |
Martin Hairer (born 14 November 1975) is a mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations.
In 2008, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.[1] In the same year he was also awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding young researchers.[2] In 2009 he received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
He is currently Professor at the University of Warwick with an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, having previously held a position at the Courant Institute of New York University. He received his University education at the University of Geneva, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann in 2001.
He is an Austrian citizen and fluent in French, German and English; he is married to the Mathematician Xue-Mei Li. His father is Ernst Hairer, a mathematician at the University of Geneva.
His Erdős number is 4.
He is Associate editor of the Journals Probability Theory and Related Fields, “Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications”, “Annales Henri Poincaré Ser. B" and previously of “Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications”
Under the name HairerSoft, he develops Macintosh software.[3]