Professor László Székelyhidi

László Székelyhidi is Professor for Applied Mathematics at Leipzig University and Director at the Max Planck Institute.

for Mathematics in the Sciences. Previously he held visiting professor positions in Paris, Nice, Budapest and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He studied mathematics at St. John’s Oxford and received his PhD 2004 in Leipzig.

He was a Heinz Hopf Lecturer at ETH Zürich and subsequently Professor in Bonn, before moving back to Leipzig. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2018.

He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul 2014 and a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics in Chile 2015.

His work mostly focusses on fluid mechanics and the mathematical foundations of turbulence.