Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner is a French mathematician, born in Cologne on 23 September 1968, working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm-Loewner evolution and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. At the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid in 2006 he received the Fields Medal for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion and conformal field theory. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1987 to 1991 and wrote his 1993 doctorate at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie under Jean-François Le Gall. He was a researcher at the CNRS, a professor at the University of Paris-Sud from 1997 to 2013 and at ETH Zürich from 2013 to 2023, and is Rouse Ball professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.