Martin Hairer

Martin Hairer
Martin Hairer at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
Born	(1975-11-14) 14 November 1975 (age 41) Geneva, Switzerland
Residence	Kenilworth
Citizenship	Austrian
Fields	Probability theory Analysis
Institutions	University of Warwick New York University
Alma mater	University of Geneva
Thesis	Comportement Asymptotique d'Équations à Dérivées Partielles Stochastiques (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Jean-Pierre Eckmann
Doctoral students	Pavel Bubak David Kelly Charles Manson Kanstantsin Matetski Sebastian Vollmer Simon Weber
Notable awards	Whitehead Prize (2008) Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008) Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009) Fermat Prize (2013) FRS (2014) Fröhlich Prize (2014) Fields Medal (2014)
Spouse	Xue-Mei Li (m. 2003)
Website hairer.org

Martin Hairer KBE FRS (born 14 November 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland) is an Austrian mathematician working in the field of , in particular . As of 2017^[update] he is Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, having previously held a position at the Courant Institute of New York University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014, one of the highest honours a mathematician can achieve.

Hairer attended the College Claparede in Geneva, followed by the University of Geneva, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann in 2001.

Hairer's nomination for the Royal Society reads:

Under the name HairerSoft, he develops Macintosh software.

Hairer is an Austrian citizen and speaks French, German and English; he married the mathematician Li Xue-mei in 2003. His father is Ernst Hairer, a mathematician at the University of Geneva.