Felix Klein Prize 2016
Patrice Haurets research and teaching in the field of applied mathematics have made extremely useful contributions to industrial needs: He has ad-vanced the modelling and simulation of tires for Michelin. And he has dealt with the interaction of solids with flows (as the air spinning of filaments), and multiscale-approaches, as required e.g. in the simulation of filters of any kind.

Research Interests
Patrice Haurets main scientific interests are in the field of computational solid mechanics, ranging from the analysis of discretization methods to multi-scale and domain decomposition. He has lead the Computational Solid Mechanics Group at Michelin Technology Center and coordinated corporate and academic cooperation in scientific computing and simulation.

Curriculum Vitae

2016	Tire Designer at Michelin
2012	Head of Computational Mechanics Group at Michelin
2011	Habilitation in Applied Mathematics, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie
2006	Computational Mechanics Project Leader at Michelin
2004	Post-Doc at the California Institute of Technology
2004	Ph.D. Thesis in Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique
2001	Engineer’s Degree
2000	Master (DEA) Numerical Analysis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
1997	Studies of Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering

Otto Neugebauer Prize 2016
Jeremy Gray is one of the (if not the) leading historian of modern mathematics. His highly original, extensive and deep body of work on 19th and 20th century mathematics has greatly advanced our knowledge about this period.

Research Interests
The history of mathematics, specifically the history of geometry and analysis, and mathematical modernism in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The work on mathematical modernism links the history of mathematics with the history of science and issues in mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics.

Curriculum Vitae

2015	Honorary Professor in the Math. Dep., University of Warwick (UK)
2014	Emeritus Professor, Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
2012	Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2002	Professor Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
1998	(since) Affiliated Research Scholar, University of Cambridge (UK)
1983	Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Brandeis Univ. (USA)
1987	Senior Lecturer Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
1978	Lecturer Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
1970	MSc Mathematics, University of Warwick (UK)
1969	First Class Honours in Mathematics, University of Oxford (UK)

EMS Prize 2016
„For her outstanding research regarding the development and analysis of numerical algorithms for partial differential equations with a focus on applications to problems with dynamically changing geometry.“

Research Interests
Sara Zahedis research interests lie in the development and analysis of computational methods, in particular finite element methods, for solving partial differential equations on dynamic geometries. The main application she has in mind is multiphase flows. She is also interested in numerical methods for representing and evolving interfaces separating immiscible fluids.

Curriculum Vitae

2014	Assistant Professor in Numerical Analysis, KTH, Stockholm (Swe)
2011	Postdoctoral Position, Uppsala University (Swe)
2011	PhD in Numerical Analysis, KTH, Stockholm (Swe)
2006	Master of Science with a major in Mathematics, KTH (Swe)
2006	Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Numerical Analysis, KTH (Swe)
2003	Teaching Assistant, Stockholm University (Swe)

EMS Prize 2016
“For his important contributions to several fields at the interface of mathematics and computer science with answers to many basic questions on the computability of objects that arise in dynamical systems, on computing of Riemann mappings and a remarkable solution of the Linial-Nisan conjecture.“

Research Interests
Braverman focuses on Theoretical Computer Science and its connections to other disciplines. Specific areas include: Computational complexity theory and algorithms, with connections to analysis and geometry. Information theory and its applications to computational complexity theory through the new area of information complexity, which he helped develop. Computability and complexity in analysis and dynamics. Mechanism design theory, particularly developing algorithmic approaches to mechanism design.

Curriculum Vitae

2015	Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University (USA)
2011	Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University (USA)
2010	Assistant Professor, Comp. Science, University of Toronto (Ca)
2008	Postdoc Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge (USA)
2008	PhD in Computer Science, University of Toronto (Canada)
2004	MSc in Computer Science, University of Toronto (Canada)
2002	MSc in Mathematics, University of Toronto (Canada)
2001	BA in Mathematics with Comp. Sci., Technion, Haifa (Israel)

EMS Prize 2016
„For his pioneering work at the intersection between mathematics and biology with fundamental contributions to mathematical analysis and development of new mathematical models with applications in biology and biophysics.“ Research Interests
Vincent Calvez is working in mathematical biology. He has been studying collective migration of bacteria within a large concentration wave, inside a micro-channel. Thus, he could compute the speed of propagation, by taking into account individual movements of bacteria within the large wave. This enhances knowledge about bacteria interactions, and raises new mathematical questions. More recently, he moved to theoretical evolu-tionary biology, e.g. dispersal evolution, invasive species, and ageing.

Curriculum Vitae

2015	Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), ENS Lyon
2009	Member of the project team Inria NUMED at ENS Lyon
2008	CNRS Young Researcher at UMPA, ENS de Lyon (France)
2007	PhD in Mathematics, Univ. of Paris 6 and ENS de Paris (France)
2005	Agrégation de mathématique with rank 6
2004	MSc in PDE and Numerical Analysis, Univ. of Paris 6 (France)
2001	Interdisciplinary programme in math and biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris (France)

EMS Prize 2016
„For his outstanding contributions to the regularity of solutions of Monge-Ampére equation and optimal maps and for his deep work on quantitative stability inequalities for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian and rigidity in some isoperimetric type inequalities.“

Research Interests
Guido De Philippis is working in the area of Calculus of Variations, Geometric Measure Theory and Partial Differential Equations (PDE). In particular he is interested in the study of regularity and singularity issues in geometric variational problems (minimal surfaces, shape optimisation problems, capillarity problems) and non linear elliptic PDE. He is also interested in the study of qualitative of solutions and in quantitative geometric and functional inequalities.

Curriculum Vitae

2016	Associate Professor, SISSA Trieste (Italy)
2015	Chargé de Recherche CNRS, ENS Lyon (France)
2014	National Italian Habilitation as Associate Prof. in Math. Analysis
2014	Post Doc, University of Zurich, Zurich (CH)
2013	HCM Post Doc, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn (Germany)
2012	PhD in Mathematics, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (Italy)
2009	MSc in Mathematics, University of Florence (Italy)
2007	BSc in Mathematics, University of Florence (Italy)

EMS Prize 2016
„For his original and groundbreaking contributions at the interface of Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry and the theory of automorphic forms, for example, with his is new proof of the local Langlands conjecture for p-adic local fields and his theory of perfectoid spaces.“

Research Interests
Peter Scholze works in arithmetic geometry. Much of his work is based on the theory of perfectoid spaces, which are certain fractal-like objects in p-adic geometry. He has applied this theory to various problems including the weight-monodromy conjecture, p-adic Hodge theory, the existence of Galois representations and the theory of local Shimura varieties.

Curriculum Vitae

2012	Professor at the Haussdorff Center for Mathematics Bonn (Hausdorff Chair)
2012	PhD in Mathematics, University of Bonn (Germany)
2010	MA University of Bonn (Germany)
2009	BA University of Bonn (Germany)

EMS Prize 2016
„For his deep work on arithmetic combinatorics and its applications to spectral gap estimates and equidistribution, including a solution to a long-standing problem regarding equidistribution of random walks on the iso-metry group of Euclidean spaces, his contribution to the study of spectral gap on quotients of arithmetic groups, self similar sets and measures.“

Research Interests
Péter Vardú studies random walks in groups. More specifically, he works on estimates for the spectral gap and the diameter. He is also interested in additive combinatorics and uses it in the context of random walks. Recently, he started to investigate self-similar measures and Bernoulli convolutions, in particular.

Curriculum Vitae

2015	Royal Society University Research Fellow, Univ. of Cambridge (UK)
2012	Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge (UK)
2011	(till 2015) Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Cambridge (UK)
2011	Visiting Researcher at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel)
2011	PhD in Mathematics, Princeton University (USA)
2007	Graduate Studies of Mathematics, Princeton University (USA)
2001	Undergraduate Studies of Mathematics, University of Szeged (HU)

EMS Prize 2016
„For his striking and important research in a variety of mathematical fields: homotopical algebra, geometry, topology and mathematical physics, including deep results related to Kontsevich's formality theorem and the relation between Kontsevich's graph complex and the Grothendieck-Teichmüller Lie algebra.“

Research Interests
Thomas Willwacher is a mathematical physicist, working at the interface between algebra, topology and physics. He started his career in the field of deformation quantization, studying the transition from classical to quantum physics from an algebraic viewpoint. Currently, he is interested in algebraic structures arising from configuration spaces of points and their relation to topological field theories. Furthermore, he is working on graph complexes, trying to connect several areas in homological algebra and algebraic topology.

Curriculum Vitae

2015	Associate Professor at ETH Zurich (CH)
2013	Assistant Professor in pure Mathematics at University of Zurich (CH)
2012	Postdoc at ETH Zurich (CH)
2010	Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University (USA)
2009	PhD in Mathematics, ETH Zurich (CH)
2007	Diploma in Physics, ETH Zurich (CH)

EMS Prize 2016
„For his remarkable and deep results in number theory, mainly dealing with non-trivial aspects of the theory of primes and in particular his original and new proof and improved estimate of the famous, so called, “small gaps between primes theorem”.“

Research Interests
James Maynard is primarily interested in classical number theory, especially the distribution of prime numbers. His research focuses on using tools from analytic number theory, particularly sieve methods, to study the primes. His main research has been on the gaps between prime numbers, showing that they can occasionally be unusually small or unusually large.

Curriculum Vitae

2017	Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (USA)
2017	Research Member MSRI
2015	Clay Research Fellowship
2013	Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College Oxford (UK)
2013	CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Montreal (Canada)
2013	PhD in Mathematics, Balliol College Oxford (UK)
2009	Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Queens’ College, Cambridge (UK)
2008	BA Mathematics, Queens’ College, Cambridge (UK)

EMS Prize 2016
„For his outstanding research in statistical physics, in particular on critical phenomena for models in dimensions below the critical one, including Fortuin-Kasteleyn percolation, Ising and Potts models, self-avoiding walks and to harmonic analysis in disordered media.“

Research Interests
The research interests of Hugo Duminil-Copin lie at the interface between Combinatorics, Mathematical Physics and Probability. He is interested in the large scale behavior and the phase transition of probabilistic models coming from statistical physics. In particular, he is studying percolation models emerging as graphical representations of lattice spin models (for instance the Ising model of magnetism).

Curriculum Vitae

2016	Permanent Professor Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (F)
2014	Professor (part-time since 2016), Université de Genève (CH)
2013	Assistant Professor, Université de Genève (CH)
2012	Postdoc, Université de Genève (CH)
2011	PhD, Université de Genève (CH)
2008	Agrégation de mathématiques, École Normale Supérieure de Paris
2007	Master, Université de Paris XI, Paris (France)
2005	MPSI and MP (preparatories classes), Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Paris

EMS Prize 2016
„For his fundamental contributions to representation theory of Lie algebras and algebraic groups, for example, with the elegant proof of Soergel’s conjecture on bimodules associated to Coxeter groups and the counter-examples to expected bounds in Lusztig’s conjectured character for rational representations of algebraic groups.“

Research Interests
Geordie Williamson is working in the field of representation theory of Lie algebras and algebraic groups. As a slogan for that he claims: „Don’t underestimate symmetry.“ His results include proofs and re-proofs of some long-standing conjectures, as well as spectacular counterexamples to the expected bounds in others.

Curriculum Vitae

2011	Advanced Researcher (W2 Research Professor), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Bonn (Germany)
2008	EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford (UK)
2008	Junior Research Fellow, St Peter’s College, Univ. of Oxford (UK)
2008	PhD in Pure Mathematics, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany)
2003	Honours in Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney (Australia)
2002	BA University of Sydney (Australia)