Professor Benedikt Löwe

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YEAR STARTED

2017

SUBJECT

Mathematics

FELLOW TYPE

Extraordinary

Benedikt Löwe is a researcher connecting mathematics, computer science, philosophy and the social sciences. His research includes mathematical logic, in particular set theory and infinite games, as well as empirical studies of mathematics, in particular with applications to the philosophy of mathematics.

At Churchill College, Löwe is an Extraordinary Fellow, Postgraduate Tutor, and a member of Council. In the wider Cambridge community, he is supervising and lecturing for the Mathematical Tripos, the Philosophy Tripos, and for History and Philosophy of Science, as well as Director of Studies in Mathematics at Lucy Cavendish and St Edmund’s Colleges. He serves on the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Mathematics.

Outside of Cambridge, Löwe is the professor of mathematical logic and interdisciplinary applications of logic at the Universität Hamburg and is the chair-holder of the CIPSH chair ‘Diversity of Mathematical Research Cultures and Practices’.

Löwe is a member if the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (AIPS), the Academia Europaea, and the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, as well as a Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC). He is currently one of the Vice Presidents of the International Humanities Council (CIPSH).