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Maximilian Alexander NITZSCHNER

DSc in Mathematics
ETH Zurich, 2020

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics

(852) 2358 7418
mnitzschner@ust.hk
Room 3490
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0003-2809-4400

ResearcherID

FQE-6160-2022

Scopus ID

57204549756

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Probability
Statistical physics
Gaussian random fields
Mathematical physics
Random structures

Publications

All Years 8 2025 0 2024 1 2023 2 2022 0 2021 1 2020 3 2019 1

2024 1

Absence of weak disorder for directed polymers on supercritical percolation clusters

Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilities et Statistiques, 2024
Nitzschner, Maximilian Alexander
Article

2023 2

Phase Transition for Level-Set Percolation of the Membrane Model in Dimensions d≥ 5

Journal of Statistical Physics, v. 190, (3), January 2023, article number 59
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian
Article

Smoothness of the diffusion coefficients for particle systems in continuous space

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, v. 25, (3), April 2023, article number 2250027
Giunti, Arianna; Gu, Chenlin; Mourrat, Jean-Christophe; Nitzschner, Maximilian
Article

2021 1

Disconnection and Entropic Repulsion for the Harmonic Crystal with Random Conductances

Communications in Mathematical Physics, v. 386, (3), September 2021, p. 1685-1745
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian
Article

2020 3

Entropic repulsion for the Gaussian free field conditioned on disconnection by level-sets

Probability Theory and Related Fields, v. 177, (1-2), June 2020, p. 525-575
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian
Article

Entropic repulsion for the occupation-time field of Random interlacements conditioned on disconnection

Annals of Probability, v. 48, (3), May 2020, p. 1317-1351
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian
Article

Solidification of porous interfaces and disconnection

Journal of the European Mathematical Society, v. 22, (8), May 2020, p. 2629-2672
Nitzschner, Maximilian; Sznitman, Alain-Sol
Article

2018 1

Disconnection by level sets of the discrete Gaussian free field and entropic repulsion

Electronic Journal of Probability, v. 23, October 2018, article number 105, p. 1-21
Nitzschner, Maximilian
Article

Article 1

Absence of weak disorder for directed polymers on supercritical percolation clusters

Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilities et Statistiques, 2024
Nitzschner, Maximilian Alexander

Article 2

Phase Transition for Level-Set Percolation of the Membrane Model in Dimensions d≥ 5

Journal of Statistical Physics, v. 190, (3), January 2023, article number 59
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian

Smoothness of the diffusion coefficients for particle systems in continuous space

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, v. 25, (3), April 2023, article number 2250027
Giunti, Arianna; Gu, Chenlin; Mourrat, Jean-Christophe; Nitzschner, Maximilian

Article 1

Disconnection and Entropic Repulsion for the Harmonic Crystal with Random Conductances

Communications in Mathematical Physics, v. 386, (3), September 2021, p. 1685-1745
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian

Article 3

Entropic repulsion for the Gaussian free field conditioned on disconnection by level-sets

Probability Theory and Related Fields, v. 177, (1-2), June 2020, p. 525-575
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian

Entropic repulsion for the occupation-time field of Random interlacements conditioned on disconnection

Annals of Probability, v. 48, (3), May 2020, p. 1317-1351
Chiarini, Alberto; Nitzschner, Maximilian

Solidification of porous interfaces and disconnection

Journal of the European Mathematical Society, v. 22, (8), May 2020, p. 2629-2672
Nitzschner, Maximilian; Sznitman, Alain-Sol

Article 1

Disconnection by level sets of the discrete Gaussian free field and entropic repulsion

Electronic Journal of Probability, v. 23, October 2018, article number 105, p. 1-21
Nitzschner, Maximilian

2018 1

Disconnection by level sets of the discrete Gaussian free field and entropic repulsion

Electronic Journal of Probability, v. 23, October 2018, article number 105, p. 1-21
Nitzschner, Maximilian
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Fall 2 2024-25 Summer 1 2024-25 Spring 6 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 3 2023-24 Summer 2

MATH2421	Probability
MATH4999	Independent Capstone Project

UROP1100P

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1

MATH2431	Honors Probability
MATH4999	Independent Capstone Project
MATH6912N	Reading Course: Conformally Invariant Processes in the Plane
SCIE1500	Guided Study on Research I
SCIE2500	Guided Study on Research II
UROP2100O	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 2

MATH4999	Independent Capstone Project
MATH5411	Advanced Probability Theory I
UROP1100N	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1

MATH4985O	Independent Study: Percolation Theory
UROP1000	Undergraduate Research Opportunities

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 05 November 2025)

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

CHEONG, Kha Man
Mathematics
LIU, Zhizhou
Mathematics

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

All Projects 2

No Projects.
Excess deviations for random walks in homogeneous and non-homogeneous environments

隨機游走在同質與異質環境中的超量偏差 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
NITZSCHNER Maximilian Alexander (Lead)
2025 -
Percolation and disconnection by level-sets of the Gaussian free field and random interlacements in random environments

隨機環境下的高斯自由場水平集和隨機交織的滲流與隔斷 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
NITZSCHNER Maximilian Alexander (Lead)
2024 -

Research Interest

Publications

2024 1

2023 2

2021 1

2020 3

2018 1

Article 1

Article 2

Article 1

Article 3

Article 1

2018 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 05 November 2025)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

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