Josef Teichmann (* 27 August 1972 in

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) is an Austrian mathematician and professor at ETH Zürich working on

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. After studying mathematics at the University of Graz, he pursued his

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at the University of Vienna. The title of his dissertation in 1999 under the supervision of Peter W. Michor was "The Theory of Infinite-Dimensional

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s from the Point of View of Functional Analysis". After working at the Vienna University of Technology, he obtained the

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there in 2002. Since June 2009 he has been a professor at the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zürich. In 2005 he was awarded the

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and in 2006 the

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of the FWF. In 2014 he was awarded the

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by the

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External links

Teichmann's personal website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Teichmann, Josef Living people Austrian mathematicians Academic staff of ETH Zurich People from Lienz Year of birth missing (living people)