Wendelin Werner

**Wendelin Werner**
	Wendelin Werner
	; Wendelin Werner at the ENS at Lyon
Born	September 23, 1968 (age 40); Cologne, Germany
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Paris-Sud in Orsay; CNRS
Alma mater	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie; École Normale Supérieure
Doctoral advisor	Jean-François Le Gall
Notable awards	Fields Medal (2006); SIAM George Pólya Prize(2006); Loève Prize (2005); Fermat Prize (2001)

Werner became a French national in 1977. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1987 to 1991. His 1993 doctorate was written at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and supervised by Jean-François Le Gall. Werner was a research officer at the CNRS from 1991 to 1997, during which period he held a two-year Leibniz Fellowship, at the University of Cambridge.

He has received other awards, including the Fermat Prize in 2001, the Loève Prize in 2005, and the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with his collaborators Gregory Lawler and Oded Schramm.

He has also been an actor, playing in the 1982 French film La Passante du Sans-Souci.

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Persondata
NAME	Werner, Wendelin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Mathematician and Fields Medallist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne, Germany
DATE OF DEATH
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Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner at the ENS at Lyon
Born	September 23, 1968 (1968-09-23) (age 40) Cologne, Germany
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Paris-Sud in Orsay CNRS
Alma mater	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie École Normale Supérieure
Doctoral advisor	Jean-François Le Gall
Notable awards	Fields Medal (2006) SIAM George Pólya Prize(2006) Loève Prize (2005) Fermat Prize (2001)