Mathematician Gustav Holzegel awarded a Humboldt professorship

A great asset for the University of Münster and its Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science: today, the Humboldt Foundation announced that Prof. Gustav Holzegel is one of eight scientists to be appointed to an Alexander von Humboldt professorship. The research prize includes funding of 3.5 million euros for five years. Gustav Holzegel is one of the world’s leading experts on the General Theory of Relativity. At the beginning of November he moved from Imperial College London to the University of Münster.

“In Gustav Holzegel we have been able to attract to the University of Münster not only a leading international mathematician, but also a further Humboldt professorship - and a second one for Mathematics, at that. ...