The Clay Institute has named Professor Gunther Uhlmann as one of six Senior Scholars for 2010-2011. "The aim of the Senior Scholar Program is to foster mathematical research and the exchange of ideas by providing support for senior mathematicians who will play a leading role as "senior scientist" in a topical program at an institute or university." Professor Uhlmann is also the recipient of the MSRI / UC Berkeley Chancellor's Award. Chancellor's Scholarships are awarded to top researchers who are also known for their excellent teaching credentials. Professor Uhlmann will be part of the MSRI program in Inverse Problems this fall.

Dr. Gunther Uhlmann is a newly appointed Full Professor and the UCI Excellence in Teaching Endowed Chair in Mathematics. He received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1976. He has had postdoctoral appointments at Harvard, MIT and the Courant Institute at NYU. He has received several honors and awards including a Sloan Fellowship in 1984 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001. In 2004, the Institute of Scientific Information named him as a Highly Cited Researcher. He was elected to be a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Most recently he was elected a SIAM Fellow in 2010, for his contributions to the analysis of inverse problems and partial differential equations. He has given numerous prestigious plenary and guest lectures and was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin and a Plenary Lecturer at the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Zurich, Switzerland. He has organized many conferences and workshops at the national and international level and served on many important committees in the mathematics community. His publication list has more than 150 refereed papers in top journals in mathematics and other fields. Prior to joining UCI he was the Walker Family Endowed Professor in Mathematics at the University of Washington. Dr. Uhlmann's research focuses on inverse problems, microlocal analysis and partial differential equations.