Former AICES PhD student Markus Bachmayr receives groundbreaking ERC grant
He is developing advancing computational methods for the effective treatment of complex mathematical problems in high-dimensional spaces. His groundbreaking approaches have now been recognized with one of the most significant awards in European research funding: Professor Markus Bachmayr, Chair of Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Geometry and Practical Mathematics, have been honored with an ERC Consolidator Grant.
The European Research Council’s prestigious Consolidator Grants support scientists in a critical phase of their research, focusing on projects that demonstrate groundbreaking potential, ambition, and feasibility. Professor Bachmayr will receive one million euros in funding over five years. “The ERC Grant is extraordinary because it not only funds research on our most passionate scientific interests but also enables us to expand our teams with exciting new expertise,” says the materials researcher Prof. Sandra Korte-Kerzel, who also received an ERC Grant.
Markus Bachmayr has held the Chair of Applied Mathematics at the Institute for Geometry and Practical Mathematics since 2022. He studied mathematics at JKU Linz and earned his doctorate from RWTH in 2012.
He was part of the AICES graduate school. The Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES) was a graduate school that was founded in 2006 as part of the German Excellence Initiative and whose funding ended in October 2019. At the end of the project period, AICES was transferred to the School for Simulation and Data Science.
The IRTG-2379 in turn builds on a unique, complementary consortium with the JARA CSD Center for Simulation and Data Science, which has taken over the work of the Aachen Institute of Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES) at RWTH Aachen University, and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
After holding postdoctoral positions at TU Berlin and Sorbonne Université in Paris, he served as a Bonn Junior Fellow at the University of Bonn from 2016 to 2018 and as a professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 2018 to 2022. Among his accolades is the John Todd Award from the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in 2013.
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