Prof. Dr. Tim Laux Curriculum Vitae

04/2025 - present

Full Professor of Mathematics, Heidelberg University
W3 Professor at the Institute of Mathematics

09/2023 - 03/2025

Full Professor of Mathematics, University of Regensburg
W3 Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics

01/2020 - 08/2023

Bonn Junior Fellow, University of Bonn
W2 Professor at Hausdorff Center for Mathematics and Institute for Applied Mathematics

08/2017 - 12/2019

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Visiting faculty hosted by Prof. L. Craig Evans

04/2017 - 07/2017

Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
Postdoc in the research group of Prof. Felix Otto

10/2013 - 4/2017

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
PhD in Mathematics

• Advisor: Prof. Felix Otto
• Title of thesis: Convergence of phase-field models and thresholding schemes via the gradient-flow structure of multi-phase mean-curvature flow
• Grade: summa cum laude; awarded Otto Hahn Medal

10/2011
 -9/2013

RWTH Aachen University
Master of Science in Mathematics

• Advisor: Prof. Christof Melcher
• Title of thesis: Dynamics of magnetic phase transitions
• Grade: 1.0 (excellent); awarded Springorum Denkmünze

10/2008
 -9/2011

RWTH Aachen University
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

• Advisor: Prof. Josef Bemelmans
• Title of thesis: Maximum principles in differential inequalities and monotonicity of solutions
• Grade: 1.1 (excellent); awarded Schöneborn Preis

2025

Guest Professor, Sorbonne University

Visiting faculty position for one month to participate in the thematic program Active Matter: The Synergy Between Maths and Physics at Institute Henri Poincaré 

2019

US Junior Oberwolfach Fellowship
NSF Grant, Workshop on Surface, Bulk, and Geometric PDEs: Interfacial, Stochastic, Non-Local and Discrete Structures

20218

Otto Hahn Medal
Awarded for “a highly original convergence proof of a numerical scheme for grain growth”; this is an annual award of the Max Planck Society for the best PhD theses of the past year in Germany among all scientific disciplines.

2016

Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Student (OWLG)
Workshop on Calculus of Variations

2013
-2017

IMPRS Graduate School and Stipend
Member of the International Max Planck Research School; scholarship provided by the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

2014

Springorum Denkmünze
Award for an excellent master's degree

2012
-2013

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation; awarded to approximately 1/4% of the German university student population

2012

Schöneborn Preis
Award for excellent bachelor's degree

2010
-2012

Bildungsfonds
Scholarship provided jointly by the German government and the Aachen-Münchener Insurance

2009
-2013

Dean's List
Among the best 5% of the students at RWTH Aachen University

9/2026

FBP26: International Conference on Free Boundary Problems. Member of the Program Committee of the 17th International Conference on Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications to be held at Humboldt University, Berlin.

5/2026

Conference „Perspectives in Applied Mathematics“. Co-organization, together with Profs. Antoine Gloria, Angkana Rüland, Martin Rumpf, Theo Sturm and Maria G. Westdickenberg, in honor of Felix Otto`s 60th Birthday, Bonn.

6/2025

Thematic Session at IHP Program: Active Matter. Co-Organization of the thematic session on Bifurcations and Stablity (jointly with Prof. Leonid Berlyand, Prof. Eric Clement and Dr. Anke Lindner) and Mathematical Methods for Data Science and Machine Leraning (jointly with Franca Hoffmann), within the thematic program Active Matter: The Synergy between Maths and Physics, Institut Henri Poincaré, Sorbonne University.

8/2024

Thematic Sessions at FBP24: InternationalConference on Free Boundary Problems. Thematic sessions on Stability and Bifurcation in FB models in Life Science and Fluids and on Interfaces and Free Boundaries in Machine Learning  held at FBP24: International Conference on Free Boundary Problems, Joao Pessoa, Brazil; co-organized with Prof. Leonid Berlyand.

7/2023

Workshop “Nonlinear PDEs: Recent Trends in the Analysis of Continuum Mechanics”
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, July 17-21, 2023; co-organized with Sebastian Hensel and Kerrek Stinson

7/2023

Hausdorff School “Analysis of PDEs: Variational and Geometric Perspectives”
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, July 10-14, 2023; co-organized with Sebastian Hensel and Kerrek Stinson

2/2023

Minisymposium at SIAM CSE23
Minisymposium on Variational Methods in Machine Learning held at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), Amsterdam, Netherlands; co-organized with Jona Lelmi and Yves van Gennip.

11/2022

YAM Symposium
Inauguration event of the Young African Mathematicians (YAM) program; co-organized with Franca Hoffmann.

8/2022

Hausdorff School “Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs”
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, August 8-12, 2022;
confirmed speakers: L. Craig Evans, Inwon Kim, Felix Otto, Maria G. Westdickenberg; co-organized with Theresa M. Simon.

4/2022

Master’s studies information event
Co-organization, together with Jan Schroer (Algebra) and Margherita Disertori (Mathematical Physics), of first faculty-wide information event aimed at finishing bachelor’s students.

7/2021

Workshop on Geometric and Applied Analysis
Organized workshop at Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, July 12-16, 2021 originally planned for summer 2020.