Manfred Einsiedler

Manfred Leopold Einsiedler is an Austrian mathematician who studies ergodic theory.

He was born in Scheibbs, Austria in 1973.

Einsiedler studied mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he received his undergraduate degree in 1996 and his PhD in 1999 under Klaus Schmidt with thesis Problems in higher dimensional dynamics.

He was a postdoc in the academic year 2000–2001 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and in the academic year 2001–2002 at Penn State University.

In 2001 he earned his habilitation at the University of Vienna and then became there a professor extraordinarius (on leave).

In the academic year 2004–2005 he was a visiting professor at Princeton University (as a Clay Research Scholar).

In 2004 he won the Research Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society.

At Ohio State University he became in 2006 an associate Professor and in 2008 a full professor.

In 2008 he was an invited speaker (Effective equidistribution and spectral gap) at the European Mathematical Congress in Amsterdam.

Since 2009 he has been a professor ordinarius at ETH Zürich.

In 2010 he was an invited speaker (Application of measure rigidity of diagonal actions) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad.

In 2019 Einsiedler was also an invited speaker at the conference Dynamics, Equations and Applications in Kraków.

Einsiedler works on ergodic theory (especially, dynamical and equidistribution problems on homogeneous spaces) and its applications to number theory.

He has collaborated with Grigory Margulis and Akshay Venkatesh.

With Elon Lindenstrauss and Anatole Katok, Einsiedler proved that a conjecture of John Edensor Littlewood on diophantine approximation is "almost always" true.

( "Almost always" means in this context that the set of pairs of real numbers for which the conjecture fails has (in particular) Hausdorff dimension zero.)