Prof. Dr. Benjamin Gess

I obtained my PhD in at the University of Bielefeld in 2011, as part of the international research training group Bielefeld-Beijing, in the field of qualitative properties of solutions to SPDE. In a subsequent PostDoc position at TU & HU Berlin, I extended my research to rough paths and singular SPDE. After two years, I was awarded a DFG research scholarship, which I utilized to initiate a project at the University of Chicago (USA) with Panagiotis Souganidis, focusing on the development of a theory of stochastic scalar conservation laws and regularization by noise. After two years at the University of Chicago, I was awarded a prestigious (free-floating) Max-Planck research group, which I chose to locate at the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig (2015-2021). During this time I further broadened my area of research, including kinetic theory and micro-local analysis, interacting particle systems, mathematics of machine learning, and numerical analysis for (S)PDE. In 2018-2019, I received five offers for full professorships, and became a full professor in Bielefeld in 2019. In addition, since 2021, I am co-heading the research group “Stochastic Analysis in the Sciences, Bielefeld-Leipzig” located at University of Bielefeld and MPI MiS Leipzig. In 2023 I was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant "FluCo" on fluctuations in continuum and conservative stochastic partial differential equations.

• 2021 – now: W3 Professor, Universität Bielefeld & Research group leader “Stochastic analysis in the Sciences” (SAiS), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig
• 2019 – 2021: Max-Planck research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig & W3 Professor, Universität Bielefeld (on leave)
• 2016 – 2019: Max-Planck research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig & W2 Professor a.Z., Universität Bielefeld (on leave)
• 2015: Lecturer (akademischer Rat) at Universität Bielefeld (Germany). Research Group: Michael Röckner
• 2013 – 2015: PostDoc at the University of Chicago (DFG Forschungsstipendium). Research Group: Panagiotis E. Souganidis
• 2012 – 2013: PostDoc at the Technische Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität Berlin (RTG 1845). Research Group: Peter Friz
• 2012: PostDoc at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). Research Group: Michael Röckner
• 2009 – 2011: PhD studies at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). Advisor: Michael Röckner (finished with summa cum laude, “excellent”)
• 2007 – 2008: “Hölderlin”-scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation and the Allianz AG.
• 2007 – 2008: Study of Mathematics at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). MSc-Advisor: James Robinson (MSc with distinction)
• 2004 – 2008: Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• 2004 – 2007: Study of Computer Science at the University of Bonn (Germany). (Honor for best pre-diploma).
• 2004 – 2007 Study of Mathematics at the University of Bonn (Germany).