"Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world.

It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there."  Marcus du Sautoy

Personal Information

Name:                             Joscha Prochno

Born:                               July 25, 1982 in Leverkusen (Germany)

Citizenship:                    German

Marital Status:               Married to Doris Prochno

Children:                        Levi and Josefine Prochno

 

Education

07/2021:                         Habilitation in Mathematics, 

                                           University of Graz Kiel

 

07/2011:                         Doctor of Science in Mathematics, 

                                           Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

02/2008:                         Diploma in Mathematics,

                                           Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel     

 

Professional Appointments

04/2021 - current:           Full Professor (W3) in Mathematics

                                            University of Passau (Germany)

 

10/2018 - 31.03.2021:     Assistant Professor in Mathematics

                                            University of Graz (Austria)

09/2017 - 08/2019:         Visiting International Professor,
                                            Ruhr University Bochum (Germany)

10/2015 - 09.2018:          Assistant Professor in Mathematics, 

                                            University of Hull (UK)

03/2014 - 09/2015:         Senior Postdoc & Principal Investigator,

                                            Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)

10/2013 - 02/2014:         Senior Associate,

                                            KPMG Management Consulting (Austria)

10/2012 - 09/2013:         Postdoctoral Fellow,

                                           Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)

02/2012 - 09/2012:         Postdoctoral Fellow,

                                           University of Alberta (Canada)

 

Projects/Grants

09/2017 - 08/2019:         Visiting International Professor Fellowship (Ruhr University Bochum)

                                         (~12.000 Euros)

03/2014 - 02/2016:         FWF Lise Meitner Grant "Local Theory of Banach Spaces and Convex Geometry"

                                        (FWFM 1628000, ~160.000 Euros)

 

Professional Activities

02/2017:                          "Perspectives in high-dimensional probability and convexity", Mini-Workshop,
                                         Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany (organiser)

03/2016:                           "Introduction to University Mathematics", Spring-School, University of Hull,

                                         Hull, United Kingdom (organiser)

 

Students

2018:                              Jake Vinegrad (BSc), Dvoretzky's theorem on almost spherical sections of convex

                                       bodies (Hull)

2018:                              Luke Rushworth (BSc), The concentration of measure phenomenon (Hull)

2018:                              Elliot Kay (BSc), The spectral theorem for compact operators (Hull)

2017:                              Hamish Chreseson (MMath), Large deviations for lp balls (Hull)

2017:                               Katie Smith (MMath), The Hahn-Banach theorem and its applications (Hull)

2016:                               Daniel Temesvari (M. Sc.), Stochastic processes and applications to the geometry
                                        of Banach spaces (Linz)

2016:                               Bernhard Pöchtrager (B. Sc.), Martingales in Functional Analysis (Linz)