Christoph Baxa

Christoph Baxa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he has been a faculty member since 2000. His academic career at the University of Vienna began in 1990 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, then moved to the Department of Mathematics in 1992, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000. He maintains an active research profile and teaching load, with courses scheduled through 2025.

Dr. Baxa completed his academic training at the University of Vienna, earning his M.A. in 1990 with a thesis on prime representing functions and Hilbert's Tenth Problem, his Ph.D. in 1994 on the discrepancy of sequences (nα), and his Habilitation in 2000 on estimates for discrepancies of special uniformly distributed sequences.

His research focuses on Number Theory, particularly Uniform Distribution Theory, Discrepancy Theory, Continued Fractions, and Diophantine Approximation. His work often connects number theory with mathematical logic, as evidenced by his early research on Diophantine representations. His recent scholarly activity is dominated by book reviews for Monatsh. Math., covering diverse areas including algebraic geometry, number theory, history of mathematics, and mathematical education.

Dr. Baxa has received several prestigious awards including the Ph.D. sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae, the Würdigungspreis from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, the Jubiläums-Studienpreis from the Austrian Mathematical Society, and the Edmund und Rosa Hlawka Preis from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has held research grants from the Austrian Science Fund and was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 2001-2003.

As a professional service, he has been a regular reviewer for Mathematical Reviews since 1996 and reviews books for Monatsh. Math. He is a member of numerous mathematical societies including the AMS, DMV, EMS, LMS, ÖMG, and SMF.