2020 Adrian Constantin

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Adrian Constantin

Austria’s most highly endowed research award

With nominees named by the scientific community, winners selected by an international jury of experts, and a €1.5 million endowment that exceeds all other individual funding awards in Austria, the FWF Wittgenstein Award is unique in every respect. With this award, the FWF not only honors exceptional academic careers, but also offers researchers the resources they need to advance their own research work at the highest international level.

Gruppenbild der FWF-START und Wittgenstein-Preisträger — Setting the stage for outstanding research: The researchers accepting their awards at the formal award ceremony © Daniel Novotny/FWF

Target group

The funding program is aimed at outstanding researchers from all disciplines.

Funding goals

The program provides both recognition and support to excellent researchers (up to 60 years of age) who have already produced exceptional work and who occupy a prominent place in the international scientific community.

Funding period and funding amount

60 months
€1.5 million

Adrian Constantin 2020

The 2020 prize was awarded to Romanian-born mathematician Adrian Constantin (*1970). With his pioneering contributions to the mathematics of wave propagation, which can be applied to natural phenomena such as tsunamis and El Niño, Constantin provides the necessary foundations for understanding the complex relationships between the ocean and the atmosphere that also play a role in climate research. Constantin has been teaching and conducting research at the University of Vienna since 2008 and is one of the most cited researchers in his field worldwide.