Gisbert Wüstholz

Gisbert Wüstholz (born June 4, 1948, in Tuttlingen, Germany) is a German mathematician internationally known for his fundamental contributions to number theory (in the field of transcendental number theory, Diophantine approximation) and arithmetic geometry.

Gisbert Wüstholz was born in 1948 in Tuttlingen and studied from 1967 to 1973 at the University of Freiburg where he finished his PhD under the supervision of Theodor Schneider in 1978.

On the invitation of Friedrich Hirzebruch Wüstholz stayed for a year as a Postdoc at the University of Bonn and then he got a Postdoc position at the University of Wuppertal where he worked with Walter Borho from 1979 till 1984 and then moved to Bonn to become associate professor at the newly founded Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.

He was member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1986, 1990, 1994/95, 2011), in 1992 Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College in Cambridge for research projects with Alan Baker and visited in the following year the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley (1993).

In the academic year 2017/18 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).