Mathematician Burkhard Wilking receives Staudt Prize 2022

Mathematician Burkhard Wilking is this year's winner of the Staudt Prize. WWU - Victoria Liesche Prof. Burkhard Wilking from the Mathematical Institute at Münster University has been awarded the Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize 2022. The Otto and Edith Haupt Foundation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, which has awarded the prize for the eighth time, does so in recognition of Wilking's outstanding work in the field of theoretical mathematics. The prize, worth 25,000 euros, is one of the most valuable in Germany for mathematics and will be officially presented on 22 April in Erlangen. Burkhard Wilking undertakes research in the field of differential geometry, which has applications for example in the General Theory of Relativity and in satellite navigation. The Scientific Commission of the Society of Mathematical Research put Wilking's name forward and, in justifying its proposal, emphasised not only his contribution to the construction of metrics of non-negative sectional curvature, as well as to rigidity theorems for manifolds of positive curvature, but also his creative use of the Ricci flow. The award winner Burkhard Wilking was born in Vechta in 1970.