Ulrich Kohlenbach
Kohlenbach at Oberwolfach, 2011
Born	(1962-07-27) 27 July 1962 (age 61) Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Goethe University Frankfurt
Known for	Proof mining
Awards	Kurt Gödel Research Prize (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical logic, proof theory
Institutions	Technische Universität Darmstadt
Doctoral advisor	Horst Luckhardt
President of the Association for Symbolic Logic
In office 2016–2018
Preceded by	Alasdair Urquhart
Succeeded by	Julia Knight
President of the DVMLG
In office 2008–2012
Preceded by	Peter Koepke
Succeeded by	Benedikt Löwe

Ulrich Wilhelm Kohlenbach (born 27 July 1962 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German mathematician and professor of algebra and logic at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. His research interests lie in the field of proof mining.^[1]

Kohlenbach was president of the German Association for Mathematical Logic and for Basic Research in the Exact Sciences (DVMLG) from 2008 to 2012 and president of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 2016 to 2018.

Life

He graduated ('Abitur') from Lessing-Gymnasium (High School) in 1980 and completed his studies of mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics with a diplom from the Goethe University Frankfurt. During his studies he received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. At the same university, he received his Ph.D. in 1990 under the supervision of Horst Luckhardt and passed his habilitation ('venia legendi') in mathematics five years later. During the academic year 1996/1997 he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan. In 1997, he became an associate professor at Aarhus University where he worked until 2004. Kohlenbach is now a full professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.^[2][3]

He is married to Gabriele Bahl-Kohlenbach with whom he has a daughter.

In 2011, he received the prestigious Kurt Gödel Research Prize of the Kurt Gödel Society.^[4] He was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.