Günter M. Ziegler

Freie Universität Berlin

Günter M. Ziegler

2021

He started his studies at LMU Munich. He received his PhD in Mathematics at M.I.T. in 1987. Since 1995, he has been a Professor of Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin, and then from 2011 at The Freie Universität Berlin, where since 2018 he has served as the President.

He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, of the German National Academy Leopoldina, and of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences acatech. He has received numerous awards,including a DFG Leibniz prize, an ERC Advanced Grant, the CommunicatorAward, and the Berlin Science Prize of the Governing Mayor of Berlin. Photo credit: Bernd Wannenmacher

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