Martin Hairer

Sir Martin Hairer (born 14 November 1975[2]) is an

Professor
Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of
stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial Sir Martin Hairer
KBE FRS
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.[5][6][7][8] In
2014 he was awarded the Fields Medal,[9] one of the
highest honours a mathematician can achieve.[10] In
2020 he won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in
Mathematics.[11]

Early life and education

Hairer was born in Geneva, Switzerland.[2] He
attended the Collège Claparède Geneva where he
Hairer in 2014
received his high school diploma in 1994. He entered a
school science competition with sound editing Born 14 November 1975
software that was developed into Amadeus,[12] and Geneva, Switzerland
later continued to maintain the software in addition to Citizenship Austrian
his academic work; it continued to be widely used as British
of 2020.[11] He then attended the University of
Education University of Geneva
Geneva, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science
degree in Mathematics in July 1998, Master of Science Spouse Xue-Mei Li ​(m. 2003)​[2][4]
in Physics in October 1998 and PhD in Physics under Awards Whitehead Prize (2008)
the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann in November Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008)
2001.[3][13]
Wolfson Research Merit Award
(2009)
Fermat Prize (2013)
Research and career
Fröhlich Prize (2014)
Hairer is active in the field of stochastic partial Fields Medal (2014)
differential equations in particular, and in stochastic Breakthrough Prize in
analysis and stochastic dynamics in general.[14] He has Mathematics (2021)
worked on variants of Hörmander's theorem, King Faisal Prize (2022)
systematisation of the construction of Lyapunov
ESI Medal (2022)
functions for stochastic systems, development of a
general theory of ergodicity for non-Markovian Scientific career
systems, multiscale analysis techniques, theory of Fields Probability theory[1]
homogenisation, theory of path sampling and theory of Analysis[1]
rough paths[14] and, in 2014, on his theory of regularity
Institutions École Polytechnique Fédérale de
structures.[15]
Lausanne
Under the name HairerSoft, he develops Macintosh Imperial College London
software.[12] University of Warwick
New York University[2]
Thesis Comportement Asymptotique
Affiliations d'Équations à Dérivées Partielles
Regius Professor of Mathematics, University Stochastiques (http://www.hairer.
of Warwick (2014–2017)[5] org/papers/these.pdf) (2001)
Member of the scientific steering committee of Doctoral Jean-Pierre Eckmann[3]
ETHZ-ITS (2013–2019)[16] advisor
Institut Henri Poincaré, member of scientific
Website hairer.org (http://hairer.org)
steering committee (2012–2020)[17]
Mathematical Research Institute of
Oberwolfach, member of steering committee
(2013–2021)[18]
Editor, Probability Theory and Related
Fields[19]
Editor, Nonlinear Differential Equations and
Applications[20]
Editor, Annales Henri Poincaré Ser. B[21]
Editor, Electronic Journal of Probability[22]
Four Fields medallists left to right
Editor, Stochastic Partial Differential
(Artur Avila, Martin Hairer (at back),
Equations: Analysis and Computations[23] Maryam Mirzakhani, with Maryam's
Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, daughter Anahita) and Manjul
Toulouse (December 2006 and February Bhargava at the ICM 2014 in Seoul
2014)[13]
Visiting Professor, Technische Universität
Berlin (July 2009)[13]
Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure,
Paris (April 2013)[13]
Member, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton (March – April 2014)[13]
Lipschitz Lectures, Hausdorff Center for
Mathematics, University of Bonn (July
2013)[24]
Minerva Lectures, Columbia University
(February 2014)[25]
Euler Lecture, Zuse Institute Berlin (May
2014)[26]
Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (July 2014)[27]
 Lévy Lecture, Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (July 2014)[28]
Fields Medal lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul (August 2014)[29]
Collingwood Lecture, Durham University (February 2015)[13]
Bernoulli Lecture, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (May 2015) [13]
Leonardo da Vinci Lecture, University of Milan (October 2015)[13]
Kai-Lai Chung Lecture, Stanford University (November 2015)[13]
Michalik Lecture, University of Pittsburgh (December 2015)[13]

Awards and honours

2006–2011 Advanced Research Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC)[30]
2007 – Editors' Choice Award, Macworld[31]
2008 – Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society[32][33][34]
2008 – Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust[35][36]
2009 – Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[37]
2012 – Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, Leverhulme Trust[38]
2013 – Fermat Prize, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse[39][40]
2014 – Consolidator grant, European Research Council[41]
2014 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014[14]
2014 – Fröhlich Prize, London Mathematical Society[42]
2014 – Fields Medal[9]
2015 – Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[43]
2015 – Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences[44]
2015 – Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[45]
2015 – Member of the Academia Europaea[46]
2016 – Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire[47][37]
2017 – Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences[48]
2019 – Substantive Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire[49]
2021 – Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics[50][51]
2022 – King Faisal Prize[52]
2022 – Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and
Physics[53]

Personal life
Hairer holds Austrian and British nationality, and speaks French, German and English; he married fellow
mathematician Li Xue-Mei in 2003.[2][4] His father is Ernst Hairer, a mathematician at the University of
Geneva.

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