Prof. Dr. Tim Laux Curriculum Vitae
Positions
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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 |
Education
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10/2013 - 4/2017 | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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10/2011 -9/2013 | RWTH Aachen University
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10/2008 -9/2011 | RWTH Aachen University
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Honors and Awards
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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 |
Organization of Conferences, Workshops & Schools
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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 ( https://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/geometric-analysis-2022/ ). |
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 ( https://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/events/eventpages/2021/gaa-2021/ ), originally planned for summer 2020. |