Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal. He is currently professor at ETH Z�rich. Werner became a French national in 1977. After a classe pr�paratoire at Lyc�e Hoche, he studied at the �cole Normale Sup�rieure from 1987 to 1991. His 1993 doctorate was written at the Universit� Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and supervised by Jean-Fran�ois Le Gall. Werner was a research officer at the CNRS from 1991 to 1997, during which period he held a two-year Leibniz Fellowship, at the University of Cambridge. He has been Professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay during 16 years, from 1997 to 2013. He has received other awards, including the Fermat Prize in 2001, the Lo�ve Prize in 2005, and the 2006 SIAM George P�lya Prize with his collaborators Gregory Lawler and Oded Schramm. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1998 and is a trustee of the Rollo Davidson Trust. He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008. 

September 23rd, 1968 in Cologne (Age 56)