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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Geometry,Global analysis, analysis on manifolds |
| Keywords | Synthetic Ricci bounds, Finsler geometry, Comparison geometry, Metric measure spaces, Optimal transport |
| Honours and awards | 2014: JSPS Prize (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 2012: Spring Prize (Mathematical Society of Japan) 2011: Geometry Prize (Mathematical Society of Japan) |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Bonn |
| Institution | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
| Institute | Institut für Angewandte Mathematik (IAM) |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Karl-Theodor Sturm | Institut für Angewandte Mathematik (IAM), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2026 |
Programme(s)
| 2025 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Shinichi Ohta is well known for his pioneering work on weighted Ricci curvature for Finsler manifolds and its relation to optimal transport and nonlinear heat flow. His works are revolutionary and have rebuilt comparison geometry and geometric analysis on Finsler manifolds. During his stay in Germany, he will address the challenge of Wasserstein contraction estimates for the heat flow on Finslerian spaces as well as barycenter concepts and gradient flow theory in space-times. |