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Martin Hairer
Mathematician

Martin Hairer

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Developing regularity structures for stochastic equations.

Regularity structures · Random dynamics

Born
14 November 1975
Birthplace
Geneva

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Martin Hairer

Austrian-British mathematician whose work addresses equations involving extremely irregular random inputs. His research in stochastic analysis earned a Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize.

Early life

Geneva education

Attended school and university in Geneva, completing a physics doctorate in 2001. As a school student he also developed sound-editing software.

Career

  1. 2001

    Doctorate

    Completed research supervised by Jean-Pierre Eckmann.

  2. 2014

    Fields Medal

    Received the award for work on stochastic partial differential equations.

  3. 2021

    Breakthrough Prize

    Was honoured for contributions to stochastic analysis.

Contributions

Regularity structures

Created a framework for interpreting and solving singular stochastic equations.

Random dynamics

Studied ergodicity, rough paths and related problems.

Beyond work

Software and family

Continued developing the Amadeus audio editor alongside mathematics. He married mathematician Li Xue-Mei in 2003.

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