Sturm, Anja, Prof. Dr.

  • 2016-present: Full professor for Applied Probability (W3), University of Göttingen
  • 2009-2016: Professor for Applied Probability (W2), University of Göttingen
  • 2004-2010: Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, USA.
  • 2003-2004: Postdoctoral fellow, The University of British Columbia, Canada.
  • 2003-2004: Junior professor for Applied Probability, Technical University Berlin.
  • 2001-2003: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin.
  • 2002: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK.

  • Major Research Interests
    Applied probability theory, stochastic processes, branching and interacting particle systems, stochastic (partial) differential equations, measure-valued diffusions, limit theorems, random media, coalescent theory.
    Applications to Biology, particularly to Genetics and Ecology include the description and analysis of gene genealogies under the influence of various factors such as competition and selection, mutation, spatial spread and interaction as well as the forward evolution and global long time behaviour of spatially distributed interacting populations.

    Homepage Department/Research Group
    http://www.stochastik.math.uni-goettingen.de/~sturm/

    ORCID: 0000-0002-1122-7329