Julian Fischer
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Positions
10/2022
 - present
   Professor, IST Austria
Research group leader
01/2017
 - 09/2022
   Assistant Professor (tenure-track), IST Austria
Research group leader
09/2014
 - 12/2016
   Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
Research group of Prof. Felix Otto
09/2013
 - 08/2014
   Research Assistant, University of Zürich
Research group of Prof. Michel Chipot
04/2011
 - 08/2013
   Research Assistant, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research group of Prof. Günther Grün


Education
06/2013    PhD in Mathematics
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
12/2011    Master of Science in Mathematics
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
11/2010    Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
06/2008    Abitur


Selected Scientific Awards
2020    ERC Starting Grant "Bridging Scales in Random Materials"
Total amount of funding: 1 142 899 €
2020    ÖMG-Förderungspreis
Early/Mid career award of the Austrian Mathematical Society.
2015    Dr. Körper Prize of the GAMM
Award of the GAMM for the four best PhD theses of the past year in the fields of applied mathematics and mechanics.


Editorial Work
since 2026    Associate Editor at SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis


(Co-)Organization of Scientific Events
06/2026    Pattern Formation, Energy Landscapes, and Scaling Laws - celebrating Felix Otto as a mentor, collaborator, and mathematician
11/2025    ESI Workshop on Geometric Variational Problems
Fall 2025    ESI Thematic Program on Free Boundary Problems
06/2024    3rd ISTA Summer School in Analysis and Mathematical Physics
10/2022    10th Annual Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group "Analysis of PDEs"
07/2022    2nd IST Austria Summer School in Analysis and Mathematical Physics
09/2020    8th Annual Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group "Analysis of PDEs"


Invited Talks at Conferences and Workshops
09/2026    Plenary Talk at 17th International Conference on Free Boundary Problems
Humboldt University Berlin
07/2026    Workshop Mathematical Modeling and Analysis-2
University of Münster
05/2026    Conference "Perspectives in Applied Mathematics" in Honor of Felix Otto
University of Bonn
02/2026    3rd Berlin - Leipzig Workshop on Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
11/2025    Workshop on Nonlinear Deterministic and Stochastic Evolution Equations
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
05/2025    Singularities in Discrete Systems
Oberwolfach
04/2025    Computational Multiscale Methods
Oberwolfach
09/2024    Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group on Analysis of PDEs
Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
08/2024    Workshop on liquid thin films
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Science, Leipzig
08/2024    New developments and challenges in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Bernoulli Center, EPFL
06/2024    Gradient Flows, Large Deviation Theory, and Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory
University of Bielefeld
05/2024    Workshop on Nonlinear Parabolic PDEs
Institut Mittag-Leffler
04/2024    The Cahn-Hilliard equation - recent advances and new challenges
Checiny
02/2024    Interfaces, Free Boundaries and Geometric Partial Differential Equations
Oberwolfach
11/2023    New trends in homogenization
Roscoff
10/2023    Variational and Geometric Structures for Evolution
Levico Terme; conference in honor of the 65th birthday of Alexander Mielke
09/2023    Second Berlin-Leipzig Workshop on Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
FU Berlin
09/2023    Energetic Methods for Multi-Component Reactive Mixtures
WIAS Berlin
08/2023    Homogenization and/or Non-Local Operators
University of Sapporo
07/2023    Nonlinear PDEs: Recent Trends in the Analysis of Continuum Mechanics
HCM Bonn
07/2023    Young Researchers in Mathematical Physics
LMU Munich
03/2023    Cross-Diffusion Systems: Analysis and Stochastics
University of Konstanz
06/2022    Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
University of Münster
05/2022    Unifying concepts in PDEs with randomness
CRM, Montreal
04/2022    Probability/PDE Interactions: Interface Models and Particle Systems
CIRM, Marseille
03/2022    Interacting Particle Systems and Hydrodynamic Limits
CRM, Montreal (hybrid format)
11/2021    New Trends in Geometric PDEs
University of Münster
09/2021    Joint Annual Meeting of the DMV and OeMG
Plenary Lecture (Prize Lecture for ÖMG Award), University of Passau (held online)
09/2021    PDE and Randomness
University of Bath (held online)
07/2021    Geometric and Applied Analysis
HCM Bonn (held online)
07/2021    Advances in Gradient Flows, Kinetic Theory, and Reaction-Diffusion Equations
University of Vienna (held online)
03/2021    Homogenization theory: Periodic and beyond
Oberwolfach (held online)
06/2019    Material Theories, Statistical Mechanics, and Geometric Analysis
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
03/2019    Interfaces and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics
Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
09/2018    Workshop Analysis of Evolutionary and Complex Systems
WIAS Berlin
08/2018    Workshop on Homogenization, Optimization, and Related Topics
Tohoku University, Sendai
12/2017    Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems
Oberwolfach
07/2017    Workshop on Multiscale Problems and Relaxation in Nonlinear Elasticity
TU Dresden
02/2017    Workshop on Numerical Inverse and Stochastic Homogenization
Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
06/2016    Workshop on Entropy Methods, Dissipative Systems, and Applications
Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna
02/2016    ERC Workshop MoMatFlu
WIAS Berlin
09/2015    Workshop on New Trends in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations
Banff International Research Station
02/2015    Workshop on Gradient Flows and Entropy Methods
HIM Bonn
12/2014    Variational Methods for Evolution
Oberwolfach
09/2014    Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group on Analysis of PDEs
Stuttgart
06/2014    INdAM Meeting Singular and Degenerate Evolution Problems
Cortona
12/2012    Workshop on Nonlocal Problems
University of Zürich