Benjamin Schlein

Benjamin Schlein (born 28 May 1975 in Lugano, Switzerland) is an Italian mathematician and professor at the University of Zurich. Schlein's research is mathematical physics. He works in mathematical analysis of many-body quantum systems and random matrix theory.

Career
Schlein studied theoretical physics at ETH Zurich and received his PhD in 2002 under the supervision of Jürg Fröhlich. From 2004 to 2005 he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and from 2005 to 2006 at Harvard University. From 2006 to 2007 he was an assistant professor at University of California, Davis. From 2007 to 2010 he was a lecturer at Cambridge University. From 2010 to 2014 he was a Hausdorff Chair at the University of Bonn in Germany. He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since 2014.

He was one of the four editors-in-chief of the Journal of Functional Analysis in 202224.

Awards and honors
In 2006, Schlein received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation In 2018, Schlein was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Personal life
He is the brother of Italian politician Elly Schlein.