{{Short description|German mathematician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Peter Hintz | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age| 1991}} | birth_place = Kassel<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Hintz's Penn State Homepage |url=https://sites.psu.edu/phintz/ |access-date=2025-10-11 |website=sites.psu.edu}}</ref> | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = ETH Zürich<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Pennsylvania State University | alma_mater = University of Göttingen<br>Stanford University | thesis_title = Global analysis of linear and non-linear wave equations on cosmological spacetimes | thesis_url = https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.edu/dist/3/198411/files/2025/07/thesis-augmented.pdf | thesis_year = 2015 | doctoral_advisor = András Vasy | known_for = | awards = Miller Research Fellowship (2015–2017)<br>Clay Research Fellowship (2017–2020)<br>Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2020–2022)<br>Golden Owl (2022)<br>Frontiers of Science Award (2023)<br>IAMP Early Career Award (2024) }}
'''Peter Hintz''' (born 1991 in Kassel, Germany) is a German mathematician working in the areas of partial differential equations, microlocal analysis, scattering theory and general relativity. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mathematics department welcomes new faculty for fall 2025|url=https://science.psu.edu/news/mathematics-department-welcomes-new-faculty-fall-2025|access-date=2025-10-11 |website=science.psu.edu}}</ref>
==Education and career==
Hintz graduated with a BSc in mathematics and a BSc in physics from the University of Göttingen in 2011. He obtained his PhD in 2015 at Stanford University under the supervision of András Vasy.<ref>[https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=204169 Peter Hintz] in the Mathematics Genealogy Project</ref>
After his postdoctoral appointments at the Miller Institute and Clay Mathematics Institute, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 2019, later becoming an associate professor. In 2021, he moved to ETH Zürich as an associate professor of mathematics and physics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Departures|date=July 11, 2025 |url=https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/eight-professors-appointed.html|access-date=2025-10-11}}</ref> As of Fall 2025, he is a full professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.
== Awards and honors ==
Hintz was Miller Research Fellow from 2015 to 2017, where he was mentored by Maciej Zworski.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship/awards |title=Awards: Miller Fellowship |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref> He subsequently was a Clay Research Fellow from 2017 to 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.claymath.org/people/peter-hintz/ |title=Peter Hintz |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref> During his time as a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 2020 to 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sloan.org/grant-detail/fg-2020-13245|title= Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for Peter Hintz in Mathematics |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref> In 2021, he delivered a plenary lecture at the 20th International Congress on Mathematical Physics.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.icmp2021.com/plenary-speakers/|title= Plenary Speakers |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref> The following year, Hintz gave a special invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians together with Gustav Holzegel (de).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=&order=field_speakers_congress_year&sort=asc&page=177|title= ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Hintz and Holzegel|year=2022|chapter=Recent Progress in General Relativity|title=Prize Lectures|volume=5|chapter-url=https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/ICM/Proceedings/ICM2022/978-3-98547-559-9-volume-1.pdf}}</ref> In 2022, he was awarded the Golden Owl for excellence in teaching at ETH Zürich.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/education/awards/golden-owl.html|title= Golden Owl of the VSETH |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref> He received a Frontiers of Science Award in 2023<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nccr-swissmap.ch/news-and-events/news/frontiers-science-awards|title= Frontiers of Science Awards |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref> and the IAMP Early Career Award in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iamp.org/page.php?page=page_award|title=IAMP Early Career Award|access-date=October 12, 2025}}</ref>
== Research ==
Hintz's work applies methods from microlocal analysis as well as scattering and spectral theory to hyperbolic partial differential equations arising in Einstein's theory of general relativity. In collaboration with András Vasy, he proved the nonlinear stability of the Kerr-de Sitter family of black holes.<ref>Peter Hintz and András Vasy, [https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.acta/1560966510 "The global non-linear stability of the Kerr–de Sitter family of black holes"], Acta Mathematica 220(1), pp. 1–206 (2018)</ref> He also co-authored a paper on possible violations of Sir Roger Penrose's strong cosmic censorship conjecture.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Cardoso | first1=Vitor | last2=Costa | first2=João L. | last3=Destounis | first3=Kyriakos | last4=Hintz | first4=Peter | last5=Jansen | first5=Aron | title=Quasinormal Modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship | journal=Physical Review Letters | date=2018 | volume=120 | issue=3 | article-number=031103 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.031103 | pmid=29400502 | arxiv=1711.10502 | bibcode=2018PhRvL.120c1103C | url=https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.031103 }}</ref> Among his other contributions is a proof of Price's law on the rate of decay of waves on Kerr black hole spacetimes.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Hintz | first1=Peter | title=A Sharp Version of Price's Law for Wave Decay on Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes | journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics | date=2022 | volume=389 | issue=1 | pages=491–542 | doi=10.1007/s00220-021-04276-8 | arxiv=2004.01664 | bibcode=2022CMaPh.389..491H | hdl=20.500.11850/521855 | url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-021-04276-8 }}</ref>
== Books == * {{cite book|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-90706-7 | title=An Introduction to Microlocal Analysis | isbn=978-3-031-90705-0 | last1=Hintz | first1=Peter | series=Graduate Texts in Mathematics | volume=304 | date= October 2025 | publisher=Springer-Verlag, Cham | doi=10.1007/978-3-031-90706-7 }}
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