Herbert Spohn is a German Mathematcian working in kinetic equations; dynamics of stochastic particle systems, hydrodynamic limit; kinetic of growths processes; disordered systems; open quantum systems
dynamics of charged particles coupled to their radiation field; Schrödinger operators; functional integration and stochastic analysis.

His PhD was obtained in 1975 at the University of Munich under the supervision of Joel Lebowitz

Joel Lebowitz

Joel L. Lebowitz is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics...

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He is currently Professor at the Technical University Munich.

In 2011 he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics. It is established by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman...

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He wrote the books "Large Scale Dynamics of Interacting Particles" and "Dynamics of Charged Particles and Their Radiation Field".

References:

http://genealogy.math.uni-bielefeld.de/genealogy/id.php?id=77111

http://www-m5.ma.tum.de/pers/spohn/

http://www.research-in-germany.de/58194/2011-01-03-prof-herbert-spohn-awarded-dannie-heineman-prize-for-mathematical-physics-2011,sourcePageId=8240.html