Walter Schachermayer#
| Membership Number: | 4352 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~schachermayer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Vienna University, Faculty of Mathematics
- 1998 - 2008 Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics
- 1993 - 1998 Vienna University, Faculty of Economics
- 1990 - 1993 Vienna University, Faculty of Mathematics
- 1978 - 1990 Johannes Kepler University of Linz
- 1976 - 1978 Instituto de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Politecnico Nacional, Mexico-City
- 1975 - 1976 Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematical finance
- Geometric functional analysis
- Stochastic analysis
- Probability theory
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Wittgenstein Prize awarded by the Federal Government of the Republic of Austria: W. Schachermayer was the first mathematician to receive this highest Austrian prize for outstanding scientific achievement. The prize was endowed with a personal research grant of 15 Mio. ATS (1.1 Mio. Euros). http://www.fwf.ac.at
- Since 2007 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany's National Academy of Sciences). http://www.leopoldina-halle.de/cms
- 2009 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant. The prize is endowed with 1.26 Mio. Euros. http://erc.europa.eu
- Dec. 2011. Doctor honoris causa, Université Paris Daupine. http://www.dauphine.fr
- 2016 Preis der Stadt Wien für Naturwissenschaften. https://www.wien.gv.at/kultur/abteilung/ehrungen/preise/preistraeger.html#nat
