Gisbert Wüstholz

Biography

Gisbert Wüstholz is a German mathematician whose research interests are Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, Diophantine Approximation, Transcendence Theory, Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Arakelov Theory, Periods and Hodge Theory. He was born in 1948 in Tuttlingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg) and studied from 1967 to 1973 in Freiburg i. Br. Where he finished his PhD under the supervision of Theodor Schneider in 1978. On the invitation of F. Hirzebruch he stayed for Postdoctoral position at the University of Wuppertal (Germany), University of Wuppertal (Germany), MPI for Mathematics. From 1985 to 1987 he was full Professor for Mathematics at Wuppertal, and in 1987 for a Chair in Mathematics at ETH Zurich and retired in 2013. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina (2000), of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2002), of the Academia Europaea (2008) European Academy of Arts and Science (2016). Since 2011 he is a Senator for Mathematics at the Leopoldina Gisbert Wustholz, Germany. The Institute of Human Sciences in Bûres sur Yvette (1984,1988) 1987), Kyushu University (Fukuoka). He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton (1986, 1990, 1994/95, 2011), in 1992 Visiting Fellowship at Trinity College , Cambridge in Berkeley (1993) at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics at Bonn and the Schrodinger Institute at Vienna (2013). Since 1980 Gisbert Wüstholz has been a member of the University of Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong (1996, 1997) , 2006, 2010) and at the Hong Kong University HKU (1999, 2011, 2012). Several visits took place at the National University of Taiwan at Taipei (2009, 2013, 2016) and he is Honorary Advisory Professor at the TonjiUniversity, Shanghai, since 1999, and at TU Graz since 2017.

Research Interest

His current research focuses on Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, Diophantine Approximation, Transcendence Theory, Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Arakelov Theory, Periods and Hodge Theory.