Ulrich Görtz (1973) is a German mathematician specialising in

arithmetic geometry In mathematics, arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory. Arithmetic geometry is centered around Diophantine geometry, the study of rational points of algebraic varieties. ...

Education and career

From 1993 to 1997, Görtz studied mathematics at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (, until 2023 , WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...

. He completed his PhD at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

in 2000; his advisor was

Michael Rapoport Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian mathematician. Career Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne. He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the Uni ...

. In 2006, Görtz

habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellen ...

at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. From 2008 to 2009 he was the recipient of a Heisenberg-Stipendium of the

German Research Foundation The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bud ...

(DFG). He received the Von-Kaven-Ehrenpreis of the DFG. Since 2009, Görtz has been a professor at the

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen () is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded 194th place in the world. It was originally ...

Books

Together with , Görtz authored the textbook ''Algebraic Geometry (Part I: Schemes)'' in 2010. Since August 2015, Görtz has been a member of the editorial board of the journal ''

Results in Mathematics ''Results in Mathematics/Resultate der Mathematik'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all aspects of pure and applied mathematics and is published by Birkhäuser. It was established in 1978 and the editor-in-chief is Catalin Badea ...

''. *

Personal life

Görtz is an

Esperantist An Esperantist () is a person who speaks, reads or writes Esperanto. According to the Declaration of Boulogne, a document agreed upon at the first World Esperanto Congress in 1905, an Esperantist is someone who speaks Esperanto and uses it for ...

, and had been active in the youth organisation of the German Esperanto Association.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gortz, Ulrich 1973 births Living people 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Arithmetic geometers Academic staff of the University of Bonn Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen Place of birth missing (living people)