Adrian Constantin (born 22 April 1970) is a

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n mathematician who does research in the field of nonlinear

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Wittgenstein Preis 2020 to Adrian Constantin
' Universität Wien: Fakultät für Mathematik, 17 June 2020 He a professor at the

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and has made groundbreaking contributions to the mathematics of wave propagation. He is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher with more than 160 publications and 11000 citations.

Life and career

Adrian Constantin was born in

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, where he studied at the Nikolaus Lenau High School. He was later educated at the

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis The University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (french: Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) was a university located in Nice, France and neighboring areas. It was founded in 1965 and was organized in eight faculties, two autonomous institutes and an eng ...

(BSc 1991, MSc 1992) and at

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(NYU), where he got his PhD in 1996 under

Henry McKean Henry P. McKean, Jr. (born 1930 in Wenham, Massachusetts) is an American mathematician at the Courant Institute in New York University. He works in various areas of analysis. He obtained his PhD in 1955 from Princeton University under William Fel ...

with the thesis "The Periodic Problem for the Camassa–Holm equation." He did post-doctoral work at the

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and at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 ...

. After a short period as a lecturer at the

University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick unive ...

, he became a professor at the

University of Lund , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics The Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin is one of two endowed mathematics positions at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the other being the Donegall Lectureship at Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1762 and fun ...

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(TCD) from 2004 to 2008, and was made a fellow in 2005. Since then he has been university professor for partial differential equations at the

, and he has also had a chair at King's College London.
Professor Adrian Constantin's Inaugural Lecture
' King's College London, 23 January 2014 Constantin specializes in the role of mathematics in geophysics using nonlinear partial differential equations to mathematically model currents and waves in the oceans and in the atmosphere. These flows and waves play an important role in the El Niño climate phenomenon and in natural disasters such as tsunamis. His approach takes into account the fact that the surface of the earth is curved and the importance of the Coriolis force.
Adrian Constantin, the Romanian mathematician who won the 'Nobel of Austria'
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Understanding the Earth’s system of waves and currents
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Awards and honors

* 2000: Highly Cited Researcher with more than 160 publications and 11000 citations * 2005:

Göran Gustafsson Prize The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for prom ...

from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences * 2007: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation * 2009: Fluid Dynamics Research Prize from the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics * 2010: Advanced Grant from the

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientif ...

(ERC)ERC Advanced Grant for Mathematician Adrian Constantin
17 November 2010, Universität Wien

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July 2012, King's College London * 2020: Wittgenstein Award from The Austrian Ministry for Science
Mathematician Adrian Constantin named Austria's new Wittgenstein Prize winner
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, 17 June 2020 * 2022: Elected member of the

German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: link=no, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale ...

, 16 March 2022 * 2022: Elected corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 22 April 2022ÖAW elects 45 new members
The Austrian Academy of Sciences

Selected publications

;papers * 1998: ''Wave breaking for nonlinear nonlocal shallow water equations'' (with J. Escher), Acta Mathematica 181 229–243. * 1999: ''A shallow water equation on the circle'' (with H. P. McKean), Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 52 949–982. * 2000: ''Stability of peakons'' (with

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), Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 53 603–610. * 2004: ''Exact steady periodic water waves with vorticity'' (with W. Strauss), Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57 481–527. * 2006: ''The trajectories of particles in Stokes waves'', Invent. Math. 166 523–535. * 2007: ''Global conservative solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation'' (with A. Bressan), Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 183 215–239. * 2011: ''Analyticity of periodic traveling free surface water waves with vorticity'' (with J. Escher), Ann. of Math. 173 559–568. * 2016: ''Global bifurcation of steady gravity water waves with critical layers'' (with W. Strauss and E. Varvaruca), Acta Mathematica 217 195–262. * 2019: ''Equatorial wave-current interactions'' (with R. I. Ivanov), Comm. Math. Phys. 370 1–48. * 2022: ''On the propagation of nonlinear waves in the atmosphere'' (with R. S. Johnson), Proceedings of the Royal Society A 478 (2260), 20210895 * 2022: ''Stratospheric planetary flows from the perspective of the Euler equation on a rotating sphere'' (with P. Germain), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. ;Books * "Nonlinear Water Waves with Applications to Wave-Current Interactions and Tsunamis",

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, Philadelphia, 2011, * "Fourier Analysis. Part 1. Theory",

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...

, Cambridge University Press, 2016,

References

External links

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Adrian Constantin's homepage

in the catalog of the German National Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Constantin, Adrian Austrian mathematicians Romanian mathematicians Mathematical analysts PDE theorists Fluid dynamicists Academics of Trinity College Dublin Corresponding Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Professorships at King's College London Academics of the University of Vienna New York University alumni Côte d'Azur University alumni People from Timișoara Romanian emigrants to Austria 1970 births Living people