Gerd Faltings#
| Membership Number: | 3856 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor emeritus, University of Bonn
- Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn
- 1994 - 2018 Scientific Member of Max-Planck-Society and Director
- 1982 - 1984 Professor University of Wuppertal
- 1985 - 1994 Professor Princeton University
- 1981 Habilitation, Münster University
- 1979 - 1982 Assistant, Münster University
Fields of Scholarship
- Arithmetic geometry
- Abelian varieties
- Number theory
- Diophantine equations
- Arakelov theory
- P-adic Hodge theory
- Algebraic geometry
- Moduli spaces of vectorbundles
Honours and Awards
- 2026 Abel prize "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang"
- 2024 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
- 2018 National Academy of Sciences International Member
- 2017 Cantor Medal
- 2016 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- 2015 Shawn Prize in Mathematical Sciences
- 2014 King Faisal Prize
- 2012 Dr. h.c., University of Münster
- 2010 Heinz Gumin Preis
- 2008 von Staudt Preis
- 1996 Leibniz Preis
- 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1986 Fields Medal
- 1983 Dannie Heinemann Preis
