Christoph Kehle

Christoph Kehle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2024. He works at the intersection of General Relativity, Partial Differential Equations, and Mathematical Physics, focusing on black hole stability, cosmic censorship, and gravitational collapse phenomena.

• Education: PhD in Mathematics (2020) from the University of Cambridge under Mihalis Dafermos, MASt (2015) at Cambridge, and BS/MS (2016) from LMU Munich.
• Research: His work addresses fundamental questions about black hole interiors, extremal black hole formation, and nonlinear wave dynamics on curved spacetimes. He investigates connections between Diophantine approximation and spacetime stability, as well as turbulence in AdS black hole systems.
• Scientific Awards: Recipient of the Research Scholar at Trinity College (Cambridge), EPSRC PhD Scholarship, Senior Scholarship Exam Prize, and scholarships from the German Academic Foundation and Max Weber-Program.
• Publications: 15 most recent articles span nonlinear stability of extremal black holes, critical collapse phenomena, and geometric PDEs. Collaborators include Y. Angelopoulos, R. Unger, A. Figalli, and M. Van de Moortel.