Karl-Theodor Sturm

Karl-Theodor "Theo" Sturm (born 7.November 1960) is a German mathematician working in stochastic analysis.

In 1989, he obtained his PhD (with a thesis on „Perturbation of Hunt processes by signed additive functionals“) under the supervision of Heinz Bauer and in 1993 he received his habilitation.

[1] Visiting and research positions led him to the universities of Stanford, Zurich, and Bonn as well as to the MPI Leipzig.

[2] From 2002 to 2012, he was vice spokesman and member of the executive board of the Collaborative Research Center 611 "Singular Phenomena in Mathematical Models"; since 2013, he is member of the executive board of the Collaborative Research Center 1060 "The Mathematics of Emergent Effects".

[5] In 2016, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research project "Metric measure spaces and Ricci curvature – analytic, geometric, and probabilistic challenges".

[6] In 2021, he was Plenary Speaker at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics in Portoroz ("Metric measure spaces and synthetic Ricci bounds").

Erbar, M., Kuwada, K., and Sturm, K.-T. On the equivalence of the Entropic curvature-dimension condition and Bochner's inequality on metric measure spaces, (2013) arXiv:1303.4382.

Von Renesse, M.-K., and Sturm, K.-T. Transport inequalities, gradient estimates, entropy and Ricci curvature.