Research group  Applied Geometric Analysis

Prof. Dr. Tim Laux

Since April 2025, I am a professor at the Institute for Mathematics at Heidelberg University. Before, I was a professor of mathematics at the University of Regensburg since September 2023. Previously, I was a Bonn Junior Fellow at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn. Until 2019, I was a Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. In 2017, I finished my PhD under the supervision of Felix Otto at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.

I am an applied geometric analyst. With methods from geometric analysis, calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations, I aim to address fundamental questions arising in physics, materials science, numerics, and data science. I am particularly interested in the rigorous justification of the emergence of geometric variational principles or geometric flows.

Porträt Prof. Dr. Tim Laux

Teaching

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Summer 2026
Lecture PDEs in Data Science
Prof. Dr. Tim Laux
Winter 2025/26

Lecture Mean Curvature Flow

Exercise Mean Curvature Flow

Seminar Gradient Flow

Prof. Dr. T. Laux

Vlad Revnic, Prof. Dr. T. Laux

Prof. Dr. T. Laux

Summer 2025
Lecture Evolutionsgleichungen
Prof. Dr. T. Laux
Prof. Dr. H. Knüpfer