Roland Bauerschmidt

Roland Bauerschmidt is a Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He previously held a professorship at the University of Cambridge and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard and the Institute for Advanced Study. His research focuses on probability theory, mathematical physics, and statistical mechanics, particularly in spin systems, renormalization group methods, stochastic dynamics, and random matrices. He has contributed extensively to understanding phase transitions, critical phenomena, and universality classes.

Education: PhD from the University of British Columbia (advised by David Brydges and others), undergraduate degrees from ETH Zurich.

Research interests include applications of supersymmetry in probability, Coulomb systems, and log-Sobolev inequalities. He has organized programs such as the HIM Trimester Program on Probabilistic Methods in Quantum Field Theory. His teaching spans graduate and undergraduate courses in probability theory, stochastic dynamics, and mathematical analysis at NYU, Cambridge, and international institutions.

His work frequently intersects with renormalization group techniques, spectral gaps, and non-equilibrium dynamics. Recent publications explore log-Sobolev inequalities in spin systems, high-temperature discrete Gaussian models, and percolation transitions in random forests.