Gerhard Huisken

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Gerhard Huisken
Gerhard Huisken in 2017
Born	(1958-05-20) 20 May 1958 (age 66) Hamburg, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Heidelberg University
Known for	Huisken's monotonicity formula
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Australian National University University of Tübingen Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
Thesis	Reguläre Kapillarflächen in negativen Gravitationsfeldern (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Claus Gerhardt
Doctoral students	Ben Andrews Simon Brendle

Gerhard Huisken (born 20 May 1958) is a German mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry and partial differential equations. He is known for foundational contributions to the theory of the mean curvature flow, including Huisken's monotonicity formula, which is named after him. With Tom Ilmanen, he proved a version of the Riemannian Penrose inequality, which is a special case of the more general Penrose conjecture in general relativity.