Gregor Gantner

Gregor Gantner is a Professor for Mathematics at the University of Bonn (Bonn Junior Fellow) since November 2023. Previously, he held a tenured Inria Starting Faculty Position in Paris (2022-2023) and postdoctoral roles at TU Wien, the University of Amsterdam, and TU Wien again. He completed his PhD in Technical Mathematics at TU Wien in 2017, supervised by Dirk Praetorius, and received a Diploma in Technical Mathematics from TU Wien in 2014.

His research focuses on numerical methods for partial differential equations, including finite element methods (FEM), boundary element methods (BEM), isogeometric analysis (IGA), and adaptive algorithms for optimal convergence. Key areas include space-time methods, a posteriori error analysis, and adaptive mesh-refining strategies.

Notable awards include the 2019 Austrian Mathematical Society Dissertation Prize, Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae (2018), and the Dr.-Klaus-Körper Prize (2018). He has led projects such as the French-German ANR-DFG project on robust adaptivity for nonlinear PDEs and the FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship on optimal adaptivity for space-time methods.

Teaching activities include advanced courses on numerical analysis and scientific computing, such as 'Optimality of Adaptive Finite Element Methods' (2025) and 'Boundary Integral Equations and BEM' (2024). His software contributions include the IGABEM2D package.