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12.12.2011
Humboldt Research Award for Vladimir Fateev
The Russian physicist Professor Vladimir Fateev (born in 1948) was honoured with a Humboldt Research Award, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Professor Fateev is an internationally renowned mathematical physicist, with non-perturbative quantum field theory as his main research field. For years, there are good contacts with the DESY theory group, based on numerous joint research interests. The Humboldt Research Award is valued at 60 000 Euros and offers Professor Fateev the possibility to stay at DESY for a period of up to one year.
Vladimir Fateev
“We are eagerly looking forward to work with Vladimier Fateev,” says DESY theorist Volker Schomerus, who nominated Fateev with two other German scientists. “The intensive exchange with him will be extremely fruitful, especially for our younger colleagues.” Fateev marked the development of mathematical physics in the past four decades as only a few other active scientists did. Today, his pioneering work in the field of nonperturbative quantum field theories is regarded as a “cultural asset of theoretical physics”. Already in the 1970s, he created the fundament for one of the principal theoretical methods of present time.
The Humboldt Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date, whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future. Award winners are invited to carry out a self-chosen research project in Germany in cooperation with specialist colleagues. Every year, the Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 of these prizes.
