News: I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth 1.4 M€ and I also have recently been accepted to the DFG’s Heisenberg Programme. See press release.


I am a research mathematician working at the intersection of geometry, topology and analysis with a particular focus on problems involving the scalar curvature of a Riemannian manifold. Recently, my main passions have been to establish aspects of a comparison geometry for lower scalar curvature bounds as well as to study closely related geometric problems in the context of general relativity. Moreover, I am interested in topological properties of spaces of Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature.

A broad overview of my general research area can be found in the volumes Perspectives in Scalar Curvature edited by Misha Gromov and Blaine Lawson.

I am based at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Münster, where I am an investigator in the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and a member of the CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity. I am also a project leader in a subproject of the DFG priority programme Geometry at Infinity.

Currently I supervise one PhD student, Thomas Tony, at the University of Münster.

I obtained my doctoral degree in 2016 from the University of Göttingen, where I was a student of Thomas Schick. Before that I studied at the University of Vienna and wrote my Master thesis under the supervision of Goulnara Arzhantseva.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Preprints

Surveys, reports and theses

Recorded talks

Teaching

Summer 2023

Winter 2022/23

Summer 2022

Winter 2021/22

Summer 2021

Winter 2020/21

Summary of past teaching

University of Göttingen (Summer 2020)

University of Münster (Winter 2016/17 - Winter 2019/20)

University of Vienna (Winter 2010/11 - Summer 2012)

Contact

University of Münster
Mathematisches Institut
Einsteinstr. 62
48149 Münster, Germany

Office: 517
Phone: +49 251 83-33740
Email: rudolf.zeidler@uni-muenster.de