文德林·维尔纳1968—

生平

维尔纳于1987年至1991年就读于巴黎高等师范学院。1993年在巴黎第六大学（皮埃尔与玛丽·居里大学）获得博士学位，导师是让-弗朗索瓦·勒加尔。1991年至1997年在法国国家科学研究中心做研究工作。

他主要研究概率论，尤其是自回避随机游走和平面布朗运动。他和格雷戈里·劳勒及奥代德·施拉姆在1999年解决本华·曼德博猜想，证明平面布朗运动的包络的豪斯多夫维数为4/3。三人在2006年获得美国工业与应用数学学会（SIAM）颁发的波利亚奖。同年他也获得国际数学联盟颁发的菲尔兹奖，是第一位以概率论研究获奖者。他目前任教于苏黎世联邦理工学院，并在法国高等师范学院任兼职教授。

他还获得过剑桥大学Rollo Davidson奖（1998年），费马奖（2001年）和Loève奖（2005年）。

1982年他参演法国电影《无忧的过客》(La Passante du Sans-Souci)，饰演少年时的男主角。这部电影是女明星罗密·施奈德的最后作品。

Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain 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 is currently Rouse Ball professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

Biography

Werner was born on 23 September 1968 in Cologne, West Germany. His parents moved to France when he was nine months old and he became a French citizen in 1977. After a classe préparatoire at Lycée Hoche in Versailles, he studied at École Normale Supérieure from 1987 to 1991. His 1993 doctorate was written at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and supervised by Jean-François Le Gall.

In 1982, Werner acted in the French film La Passante du Sans-Souci.

Academic career

Werner was a researcher at the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique) from 1991 to 1997, during which he also held a two-year Leibniz Fellowship, at the University of Cambridge. He was Professor at

the University of Paris-Sud from 1997 to 2013 and also taught at the École Normale Supérieure from 2005 to 2013. He was then Professor at the ETH Zürich from 2013 to 2023.

Awards and recognition

Werner has received several awards besides the Fields Medal, including the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1998, the Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet in 1999, the Fermat Prize in 2001, the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the French Academy of Sciences in 2003, the Loève Prize in 2005, the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with his collaborators Gregory Lawler and Oded Schramm, and the Heinz Gumin Prize in 2016. In 2026 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society.

He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008. He is also a member of other academies of sciences, including the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and is an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2020.