Professor Dr. Raimar Wulkenhaar

Current affiliations

  • Professur für Reine Mathematik (Prof. Wulkenhaar)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Mathematical Physics
  • Topological recursion
  • Quantum field theory
  • Noncommutative geometry

Academic Education

2005Habilitation in Physics, Technical University Vienna
1994 - 1997Dissertation in Physics, University of Leipzig (Prof. G. Rudolph)
1992 - 1994Study of Physics, University of Leipzig, Diploma Physics (Prof. G. Rudolph)
1990 - 1992Study of Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Pre-diploma

Work Experience

since 2005Professor (W2) for Pure Mathematics, WWU Münster
2005Maître de Conférence invité, Université de Provence, Marseille
2002 - 2005Scientific Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
2000 - 2001Marie-Curie Fellow, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
1998 - 1999DAAD Postdoc Fellow, Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille

Functions and Memberships

since 2023Academic coordinator of YAM Münster, (Young African Mathematicians)
since 2007Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Noncommutative Geometry
2019 - 2025Principal Investigator in Cluster of Excellence "Mathematics Münster"
2005 - 2018Member of the Editorial Board of Annales Henri Poincaré
1990 - 2005Member of the German Physical Society
1995 - 1997Member of the German National Scholarship Foundation

Publications

Hock, Alexander; Shadrin, Sergey;Wulkenhaar, Raimar (2025)
In: arXiv:2501.00082.
Type of Publication: Research article in digital collection
Hock, Alexander; Wulkenhaar, Raimar; Dołega, Maciej (appendix) (2024)
In: Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré D: Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions, online first
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Borot, Gaëtan; Wulkenhaar, Raimar (2024)
In: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 20
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Grosse, Harald; Kanomata, Naoyuki; Sako, Akifumi; Wulkenhaar, Raimar (2024)
In: Letters in Mathematical Physics, 114
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Grosse, Harald; Kanomata, Naoyuki; Sako, Akifumi; Wulkenhaar, Raimar (2024)
In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2912
Type of Publication: Research article in journal (conference)
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Projects

Duration: 01/07/2024 - 30/06/2028 | 2nd Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/07/2020 - 30/06/2024 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/03/2020 - 31/08/2024 | 2nd Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Research Training Group
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
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Talks

Noncommutative geometry meets topological recursion
Wulkenhaar, Raimar (04/09/2024)
Developments in Modern Mathematics: the 2nd WiMGo conference, Göttingen
Type of talk: scientific talk
Scalar quantum fields on 4-dimensional noncommutative geometry
Wulkenhaar, Raimar (26/07/2024)
Exactly solvable models, Wien
Type of talk: scientific talk
BKP-relations in Kontsevich model with arbitrary potential
Wulkenhaar; Raimar (11/06/2024)
The QFT path, Heidelberg
Type of talk: scientific talk
Quantum fields on noncommutative geometries
Wulkenhaar, Raimar (03/04/2024)
North Atlantic Noncommutative Geometry Seminar, Warsaw
Type of talk: scientific talk
Quantum fields on noncommutative geometries
Wulkenhaar, Raimar (08/12/2023)
Workshop on Operator Algebras and Applications: Non-Commutative Geometry, Toronto
Type of talk: scientific talk
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Prizes

Senior Research Fellowship
Awarded by: Erwin-Schrödinger-Institute Vienna
Award given to: Wulkenhaar, Raimar
Date of awarding: 01/01/2009
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Schloeßmann Fellowship
Awarded by: Max-Planck-Society
Award given to: Wulkenhaar, Raimar
Date of awarding: 01/01/2002
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

[Working title] The combinatorial structure of correlation functions in the quartic Kontsevich model and its connections to freeness in free probability
Candidate: Harengel, Katharina | Supervisors: Wulkenhaar, Raimar
Period of time: 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2025
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Quantum Field Theoretic and Combinatorial Perspectives on Intersection Numbers on the Moduli Space of Complex Curves: Explicit calculations in the Quartic…
Candidate: Jost, Finn Bjarne | Supervisors: Wulkenhaar, Raimar; Schmitz, Kai | Reviewers: Wulkenhaar, Raimar; Schürmann, Jörg
Period of time: 01/09/2021 - 10/12/2024
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
The Recursive Structure of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
Candidate: Branahl, Johannes | Supervisors: Wulkenhaar, Raimar | Reviewers: Wulkenhaar, Raimar; Schürmann, Jörg
Period of time: 01/02/2020 - 07/10/2022
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Random tensors and the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
Candidate: Pascalie, Romain | Supervisors: Wulkenhaar, Raimar; Tanasa, Adrian
Period of time: 01/09/2017 - 10/09/2020
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Matrix Field Theory
Candidate: Hock, Alexander | Supervisors: Wulkenhaar, Raimar
Period of time: 01/08/2017 - 11/03/2020
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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