Professor Martin Hairer
King Faisal Prize in Science 2022 Laureate
Topic: "Mathematics"
Although mathematicians do sometimes rely on experimental evidence or computer simulations to build their intuition, the resulting mathematics stands on its own and is in principle valid forever
Martin Hairer pursued his studies at the University of Geneva, where he received undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics in 1998, as well as a Ph.D. in Physics in 2001. He subsequently held positions at the University of Warwick (UK) and the Courant Institute (US), before moving to Imperial College London, where he currently holds a chair in probability and stochastic analysis. His work is in the general area of probability theory with a main focus on the analysis of stochastic partial differential equations. In particular, he recently developed the theory of regularity structures which allows to give a precise mathematical meaning to a number of such equations that were previously outside the scope of mathematical analysis.
Author of a monograph and over 100 research articles, Professor Hairer is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was also awarded an honorary degree from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016. His work has been distinguished with a number of prizes and awards, most notably the LMS Whitehead and Philip Leverhulme prizes in 2008, the Fermat prize in 2013, the Fröhlich prize and Fields Medal in 2014, a knighthood in 2016, and the Breakthrough prize in Mathematics in 2020.
This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.
