Gerhard Huisken

Gerhard Huisken
Gerhard Huisken in 2017
Born (1958-05-20) 20 May 1958 (age 66)
NationalityGerman
Alma materHeidelberg University
Known forHuisken's monotonicity formula
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsAustralian National University
University of Tübingen
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
ThesisReguläre Kapillarflächen in negativen Gravitationsfeldern (1983)
Doctoral advisorClaus Gerhardt
Doctoral studentsBen 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.