About Dr. Karsten Grove

Karsten Grove has profoundly influenced the development of modern Riemannian geometry. The "Grove Program" to classify positively curved manifolds via their symmetry groups has become a flourishing research area, and more than a
quarter century after their invention the notions of "center of mass" and "critical points of distance functions" are considered basic, foundational tools in comparison geometry.

Karsten has made fundamental, often seminal, contributions to a variety of other subjects including, geodesics, rational homotopy theory in geometry, (singular) metric foliations, and manifolds with curvature bounded from below. His ideas and techniques are certain to have a lasting impact.

Karsten grew up in Denmark, where he met his wife Ilse. They have three children: Jens, Soren and Niels Christian. Outside of mathematics Karsten's hobbies include woodworking and home improvement. Like many Danes, he loves soccer, good beer, good cheese and good company!