Christof Schütte (born April 10, 1966) is a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

, working in applied and computational mathematics at the

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

and the

Zuse Institute Berlin The Zuse Institute Berlin (abbreviated ZIB, or ''Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin'') is a research institute for applied mathematics and computer science on the campus of Freie Universität Berlin in Dahlem, Berlin, Germany ...

Education and career

Christof Schütte was born in

Warburg Warburg (; Westphalian: ''Warberich'' or ''Warborg'') is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Höxter distr ...

. He graduated in physics from

Paderborn University Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

in 1991 and then obtained his PhD in mathematics under the supervision of Peter Deuflhard in 1994. He is currently a Professor in Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing at

, and the president of the

. Schütte has been one of the driving forces behind the Research Center “Mathematics for Key Technologies” (MATHEON) and has been its co-chair since 2008. Since 2015, he has acted as the head of th
Research Campus MODAL
a public-private partnership between mathematics research institutes and 15 industrial companies, and as the co-chair of th
Einstein Center for Mathematics in Berlin
2021 Schütte has been elected chairman of the board of the NHR association (Verein für Nationales Hochleistungsrechnen e.V. - NHR-Verein).

Research

Schütte's research has focused on multiscale modelling and simulation for complex systems, numerical mathematics, data-driven modelling and statistical learning with applications in the natural, materials and

life sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, th ...

. He is co-inventor of the transfer operator approach to metastability that has led to the development of widely used computational methods like

Markov state model A hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical Markov model in which the system being modeled is assumed to be a Markov process — call it X — with unobservable ("''hidden''") states. As part of the definition, HMM requires that there be an obs ...

s in molecular dynamics or the (extended) dynamic mode decomposition. Schütte has been an invited speaker at the

International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is an organisation for professional applied mathematics societies and related organisations. The current (2020) President is Ya-xiang Yuan. History Until 1999 the Council was ...

(ICIAM) in

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () i ...

, 2007, and at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

(ICM) in

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, 2010.

Publications

Christof Schütte has published more than 150 articles in scientific journals.List of publications

References

External links

*
Christof Schuette home page

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics information

* ttps://www.topoi.org/publication-author/christof-schuette/ Excellence Cluster TOPOI information {{DEFAULTSORT:Schutte, Christof 1966 births Living people Paderborn University alumni 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians German applied mathematicians Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin