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Yilin Wang (ETH Zurich)
Affiliations
07.2025-current
Associate Professor
, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
06.2022-06.2025
Junior Professor
, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
01.2022-05.2022
Strauch Postdoctoral fellow
,
The Analysis and Geometry of Random Shapes
, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA
09.2019-05.2022
C.L.E. Moore Instructor
, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Education
09.2015–06.2019
Ph.D.
, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
09.2014–06.2015
M.Sc.,
Probability and Statistics, University Paris XI, Orsay, France.
09.2012–06.2014
M.Sc.,
Fundamental Mathematics, University Paris VI, Paris, France.
09.2011–06.2015
Élève Normalienne,
Mathematics,
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
, France.
09.2009–06.2011
Classe Préparatoire
, Mathematics & Physics, Lycée du Parc, Lyon, France.
Long term visits
01.2017–06.2017 Visiting graduate student at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Distinction and Grants
2026
Frontiers of Science award
by
International Congress for Basic Science, China
2025
Jacques Herbrand prize
by La fondation Mireille Cahn-Bunel de l’Académie des sciences, France
2025
SERI grant
(PI) by Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (1,190,502 CHF)
2025
Simons Collaboration grant
(co-PI, 2025-2029) on
Probabilistic paths to Quantum Field theory
(8M USD)
2024
Salem Prize
by Institute for Advanced Study, USA
2024
Invited speaker
at
European Congress of Mathematics
,
Seville, Spain
2024
Invited speaker
at
International Congress of Mathematical Physics
, Strasbourg, France
2023
ERC Starting grant
(PI, 2024-2025)
RaConTeich
Connecting Random conformal geometry and Teichmuller theory (1,499,938 EUR)
2022
Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize
by Breakthrough Prize Foundation
2022
MSRI Strauch Postdoctoral Fellowship
2020-2022
NSF award DMS-
1953945
(PI)
Probabilistic and analytic aspects of the Loewner energy (172,713 USD)
2020
ETH Medal
for outstanding PhD theses
2018
NCCR SwissMAP
Innovator Prize
to
PhD students or postdocs for important scientific achievements
2017
Swiss NSF Mobility grant
(
12,684 CHF
)
Language Proficiency
English : Fluent
French : Fluent
Chinese : Native
German : Elementary
Swiss Alps
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