Simon Brendle

Simon Brendle (born June 1981) is a German-American mathematician working in differential geometry and nonlinear partial differential equations. He received his Dr. rer. nat. from Tübingen University under the supervision of Gerhard Huisken (2001). He was a professor at Stanford University (2005–2016), and is currently a professor at Columbia University. He has held visiting positions at MIT, ETH Zürich, Princeton University, and Cambridge University.

Simon Brendle
Brendle at Oberwolfach, 2015
BornJune 1981 (age 42)
NationalityGerman, American
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
Known forYamabe flow, differentiable sphere theorem, Lawson conjecture, singularity formation in mean curvature flow and Ricci flow
AwardsEMS Prize (2012)
Bôcher Prize (2014)
Simons Investigator Award (2017)
Fermat Prize (2017)
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics(2024)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsColumbia University
Stanford University
ThesisKrümmungsflüsse auf Mannigfaltigkeiten mit Rand (2001)
Doctoral advisorGerhard Huisken
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