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Oliver Fabert promoted to Associate Professor

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3 December 2024
On December 1, Oliver Fabert got promoted to universitair hoofddocent which is the first senior position in the Dutch academic system and is considered equivalent to ‘associate professor’ in the US system or ‘ausserordentlicher Professor’ in the German system. 

After graduate studies at the LMU Munich and ETH Zurich and postgraduate positions at MSRI Berkeley and the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig among others, he received his habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 2014. Oliver joined the faculty in the academic year 2014/15 as an assistant professor. He served as chair of the program committee for 6 years and was one of three nominees for the VU teacher talent award in 2022. In his research he studies dynamical properties of solutions to nonlinear (stochastic) differential equations in mathematical physics. Problems in classical mechanics can be formulated and solved in the language of Hamiltonian systems on symplectic manifolds. The resulting field of symplectic topology is a very active area of research for more than 40 years by now. Research in symplectic topology centers almost exclusively around problems from classical mechanics. In the past 5+ years he has been able to push the frontier into classical field theory and statistical physics. Partially in joint work with his graduate students he has been able to generalize the elliptic methods of Gromov and Floer to Hamiltonian mechanical systems coupled to Hamiltonian field theories like the wave equation and/or coupled to stochastic processes such as Brownian motion. 

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