Rate My Professor Jörg Frauendiener

Jörg Frauendiener serves as Chair of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago. He earned his Diplom in Physics, Dr. rer. nat., and Habilitation from the University of Tübingen, where he also held the position of apl. Professor. His academic career encompasses postdoctoral research positions at renowned institutions, including the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he was a University Lecturer and Privatdozent at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Tübingen, and he holds an Adjunct Research Fellow position at the Centre of Mathematics for Applications in Oslo.

Frauendiener's research specializes in mathematical physics, with emphasis on gravitational physics, including gravitational waves and black holes, conformal field equations, asymptotic structure of spacetimes, initial boundary value problems for Einstein's field equations, and computational studies of partial differential equations. He has contributed significantly to the field through key publications such as the review article 'Conformal Infinity' in Living Reviews in Relativity (2004), 'Fully Nonlinear Gravitational Wave Simulations from Past to Future Null Infinity' in Physical Review Letters (2025), and the edited volume Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Mathematical Relativity. His work has earned him the Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2013, the Supervisor of the Year award from the University of Otago Division of Science in 2013, and the Feodor-Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Frauendiener serves on the editorial boards of ISRN Mathematical Physics and General Relativity and Gravitation, and previously acted as President of the topical group Gravitation and Relativity within the German Physical Society from 2004 to 2008. He has secured major funding as principal investigator, including Marsden Grants for gravitational waves from rotating black holes (2020-2023) and global simulation of gravitational waves (2010-2012), as well as EU grants and Otago Research Grants.