Education
He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn gaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 1980 with the title Infinitely Many Solutions for Superlinear, Anticoercive Elliptic Boundary Value Problems without Oddness.
mathematician university professor
He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn gaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 1980 with the title Infinitely Many Solutions for Superlinear, Anticoercive Elliptic Boundary Value Problems without Oddness.
He took research positions in Paris and at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich before gaining his habilitation in Bonn in 1984. Since 1986 he has been working at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: initially as an assistant professor, becoming full professor in 1993. His specialisms included nonlinear partial differential equations and calculus of variations.
He is joint editor of the journals Calculus of Variations, Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, International Mathematical Research Notices and Mathematische Zeitschrift.
His publications include the book Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems) (Springer-Verlag, 1990), which was praised by Jürgen Jost as "very useful" with an "impressive range of often difficult examples". Struwe was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society in 2011.
In 2012, Struwe was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. American Mathematical Society.