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Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner
	Werner in 2007
Born	23 September 1968 (age 56); Cologne, West Germany ; (now Germany)
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École normale supérieure; Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Awards	Heinz Gumin Prize (de) (2016); Fields Medal (2006); Pólya Prize (2006); Loève Prize (2005); Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand (2003); Fermat Prize (2001); EMS Prize (2000); Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet (1999); Davidson Prize (1998)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	CNRS; Université Paris-Sud; ETH Zurich; University of Cambridge
Thesis	Quelques propriétés du mouvement brownien plan (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Jean-François Le Gall
Doctoral students	Vincent Beffara [de]; Julien Dubédat [de]; Yilin Wang;

Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born 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.^[1] 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. 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.^[2]^[3] He was then Professor at the ETH Zürich from 2013 to 2023.