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About the person
Anton Bovier studied physics at the University of Bonn, graduating in 1981. He then worked at Caltech (1981/82) and at ETH Zurich, where he received his PhD in theoretical physics under Jürg Fröhlich in 1986. From 1986 to 1988 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine. From 1988 to 1991 he conducted research in Bonn, then at the Ruhr University Bochum, and from 1994 to 2008 he was head of the Interacting Random Systems group at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin. In 2003 he became a professor at the TU Berlin and in 2008 at the University of Bonn. From 2000 onwards, together with Michael Eckhoff, Veronique Gayrard and Markus Klein, he developed a new potential-theoretical approach to the phenomenon of metastability of stochastic dynamical systems. He also works on Branching Brownian Motion. In statistical mechanics, he deals with disordered systems, including spin glasses, and with applications in mathematical biology, in particular in population genetics, ecology, and modelling of immunotherapy. In 2006, Anton Bovier was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.