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Hausdorff Center for Mathematics

The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), established in 2006 as the first German Cluster of Excellence in Mathematics, is a major center for mathematical research and international scientific exchange. Its spectrum ranges from pure and applied mathematics to interdisciplinary research, including theoretical economics. HCM features the Hausdorff Research Institute (HIM) with its trimester programs and the Hausdorff school for Mathematics (HSM) which is the central institution serving all early-career researchers in mathematics at Bonn: from doctoral students to advanced postdocs.

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News and Highlights

Jan Hasenauer and Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz win transdisciplinary research prize
The Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) Modelling and Life and Health at the University of Bonn have presented their €100,000 research prize, entitled “Modelling for Life and Health,” for the second time. The winners—Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz and Jan Hasenauer—will be using their prize money to study the functions of “scavenger cells” in the lungs at the interface between mathematics and medicine. Jan Hasenauer ist a member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) and one of the leaders of its Interdisciplinary Research Unit (IRU) "Mathematical life sciences".
Heisenberg funding for Asgar Jamneshan
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has accepted Asgar Jamneshan into the Heisenberg program. Asgar Jamneshan is carrying out research into the foundations of higher-order Fourier analysis. The mathematician, who is an associate member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), will receive funding of up to 570,000 Euro. 
Former Bonn PhD student Richard Höfer receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025
Richard Höfer, professor at the University of Regensburg and former PhD student in Bonn, has been awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025. The prize is considered the most important award in Germany for researchers in the early stages of their careers. The award ceremony will take place on June 3 in Berlin.
Dennis Gaitsgoy awarded 2025 Breakthrough Prize
Dennis Gaitsgory, director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) and member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), receives the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, endowed with 3 million US dollars “for foundational works and numerous breakthrough contributions to the geometric Langlands program and its quantum version; in particular, the development of the derived algebraic geometry approach and the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture in characteristic 0”.

Fields Medalists                          

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Peter Scholze

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Gerd Faltings

Leibniz Prizes                         

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Angkana Rüland

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Catharina Stroppel

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Peter Scholze

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Wolfgang Lück

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Felix Otto

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Stefan Müller

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Gerd Faltings

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Michael Rapoport

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Günter Harder

Hausdorff Chairs

The Hausdorff Chairs make it possible to complement the faculty without the usual constraints in terms of timing and fields. We seek internationally outstanding scientists who fit into the broad spectrum of the Hausdorff Center.

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Stefan      
Müller

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Lisa
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Christoph
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Felix Hausdorff

The center is named after the famous mathematician Felix Hausdorff. Felix Hausdorff was born on 8 November 1868 in Breslau as the son of a Jewish merchant. He was appointed associate professor in Bonn in 1910 and assumed a full professorship in 1913 in Greifswald. He returned to Bonn in 1921 to continue his work until 1935. During the national socialist regime, he suffered increasing harassment and humiliation until 26 Januar 1942, when he and his wife chose suicide over imminent deportation to a concentration camp. With his masterpiece Grundzüge der Mengenlehre (1914), Hausdorff established topology as an independent discipline in mathematics. In addition, Hausdorff made significant contributions to general and descriptive set theory, measure theory, algebra, functional anaylsis, probability theory, and insurance mathematics.

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Bonn Junior Fellows

The BJF program offers attractive positions in an outstanding scientific environment to excellent researchers at an early stage of their careers. It provides a springboard to  prestigious permanent positions worlwide.

Johannes 
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Florian 
Brandl

Christian
Brennecke

Laurent 
Côté

Gregor
Gantner

Giles
Gardam

Barbara
Verfürth

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