Peter Hintz

Peter Hintz
Born	1991 (age 33–34) Kassel [1]
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Göttingen Stanford University
Awards	Miller Research Fellowship (2015–2017) Clay Research Fellowship (2017–2020) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2020–2022) Golden Owl (2022) Frontiers of Science Award (2023) IAMP Early Career Award (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	ETH Zürich Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pennsylvania State University
Thesis	Global analysis of linear and non-linear wave equations on cosmological spacetimes  (2015)
Doctoral advisor	András Vasy

Peter Hintz (born 1991 in Kassel, Germany) is a German mathematician working in the areas of partial differential equations, microlocal analysis, scattering theory and general relativity. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. ^[2]

Education and career

Hintz graduated with a BSc in Mathematics and a BSc in Physics from the University of Göttingen in 2011. He obtained his PhD in 2015 at Stanford University under the supervision of András Vasy. ^[3]

After his postdoctoral appointments at the Miller Institute and Clay Mathematics Institute, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 2019, later becoming an associate professor. In 2021, he moved to ETH Zürich as an associate professor of mathematics and physics. ^[4] As of Fall 2025, he is a full professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

Awards and honors

Hintz was Miller Research Fellow from 2015 to 2017, where he was mentored by Maciej Zworski. ^[5] He subsequently was a Clay Research Fellow from 2017 to 2020. ^[6] During his time as a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 2020 to 2022. ^[7] In 2021, he delivered a plenary lecture at the 20th International Congress on Mathematical Physics. ^[8] The following year, Hintz gave a special invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians together with Gustav Holzegel (de). ^{[9] [10]} In 2022, he was awarded the Golden Owl for excellence in teaching at ETH Zürich. ^[11] He received a Frontiers of Science Award in 2023 ^[12] and the IAMP Early Career Award in 2024. ^[13]

Research

Hintz's work applies methods from microlocal analysis as well as scattering and spectral theory to hyperbolic partial differential equations arising in Einstein's theory of general relativity. In collaboration with András Vasy, he proved the nonlinear stability of the Kerr-de Sitter family of black holes. ^[14] He also co-authored a paper on possible violations of Sir Roger Penrose's strong cosmic censorship conjecture. ^[15] Among his other contributions is a proof of Price's law on the rate of decay of waves on Kerr black hole spacetimes. ^[16]

Books

• Hintz, Peter (October 2025). An Introduction to Microlocal Analysis. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Vol. 304. Springer-Verlag, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-90706-7. ISBN   978-3-031-90705-0.

References

1. "Peter Hintz's Penn State Homepage". sites.psu.edu. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
2. "Mathematics department welcomes new faculty for fall 2025". science.psu.edu. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
3. Peter Hintz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Departures". July 11, 2025. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
5. "Awards: Miller Fellowship" . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
6. "Peter Hintz" . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
7. "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for Peter Hintz in Mathematics" . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
8. "Plenary Speakers" . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
9. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers" . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
10. Hintz and Holzegel (2022). "Recent Progress in General Relativity" (PDF). Prize Lectures. Vol. 5.
11. "Golden Owl of the VSETH" . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
12. "Frontiers of Science Awards" . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
13. "IAMP Early Career Award" . Retrieved October 12, 2025.
14. Peter Hintz and András Vasy, "The global non-linear stability of the Kerr–de Sitter family of black holes", Acta Mathematica 220(1), pp. 1–206 (2018)
15. Cardoso, Vitor; Costa, João L.; Destounis, Kyriakos; Hintz, Peter; Jansen, Aron (2018). "Quasinormal Modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship". Physical Review Letters. 120 (3) 031103. arXiv: 1711.10502 . Bibcode:2018PhRvL.120c1103C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.031103. PMID   29400502.
16. Hintz, Peter (2022). "A Sharp Version of Price's Law for Wave Decay on Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 389 (1): 491–542. arXiv: 2004.01664 . Bibcode:2022CMaPh.389..491H. doi:10.1007/s00220-021-04276-8. hdl:20.500.11850/521855.