Martin Hairer KBE FRS is currently Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London. He has mostly worked in the fields of stochastic partial differential equations in particular, and in stochastic analysis and stochastic dynamics in general. He made fundamental advances in various directions such as the study of hypoelliptic and/or hypocoercive diffusions, the development of an ergodic theory for stochastic PDEs, the systematisation of the construction of Lyapunov functions for stochastic systems, the development of a general theory of ergodicity for non-Markovian systems, multiscale analysis techniques, etc. Most recently, he has worked on applying rough path techniques to the analysis of certain ill-posed stochastic PDEs and introduced the theory of regularity structures. For this work he was awarded the Fields Medal at the 2014 ICM in Seoul.
