Short CV
| 4 April 2024 | ISIMM Senior Prize of International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics |
| since 1.10.2023 | External member of WIAS and retired from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
| 2022-2025 | MATH+ Distinguished Fellow |
| 2021-2023 | Speaker of the MATH+ Council |
| 2015-2023 | Authorized Representative of the WIAS Director |
| 2011-2020 | Treasurer of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and Head of IMU Secretariat at WIAS |
| 2005-2015 | Deputy Director of the WIAS |
| 2004-2023 | Full Professor,
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin,
Institut für Mathematik
Head of Research Group Partial Differential Equations at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics |
| 2002-2004 | Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 404: Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics |
| 2000-2008 | Coordinator of the DFG Priority Program SPP 1095: Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Problems |
| 1999-2004 | Full Professor, Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Analysis, Dynamik und Modellierung |
| 1992-1999 | Full Professor, Universität Hannover, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik |
| 1990 | Habilitation, Universität Stuttgart |
| 1986-1987 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell University (PostDoc advisor Philip Holmes ) |
| 1984-1992 | Research Fellow, Universität Stuttgart |
| 1984 | Ph.D., Universität Stuttgart (Advisor: Klaus Kirchgässner) |
| 1983 | Diploma, Universität Stuttgart |
| 1958 | Born in Renningen near Stuttgart |
I am married to Bärbel who is a literary scientist and writer.
We enjoy our three children and our four grandchildren.