Volker Mehrmann
Volker Mehrmann received his Diplom in mathematics in 1979, his Ph.D. in 1982, and his habilitation in 1987 from the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
He spent research years at Kent State University in 1979--1980, at the University of Wisconsin in 1984--1985, and at IBM Research Center in Heidelberg in 1988--1989.
After spending the years 1990--1992 as a visiting full professor at the RWTH Aachen, he was a full professor at TU
Chemnitz from 1993 to 2000. Since then he has been a full professor for at TU Berlin.
His research interests are in the areas of numerical mathematics/scientific computing,
applied and numerical linear algebra, control theory, and the theory and numerical solution of differential-algebraic equations.
From 2000-2004 he was chairman of the mathematics committee of
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),
and currently he is Chairman of MATHEON, the
DFG Research Center `Mathematics for key technologies´ in Berlin and member
of the ERC panel for mathematics.
He is editor-in-chief of Linear Algebra and its Applications,
associated editor of Numerische Mathematik, SIMAX, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, ETNA, and Linear and Multilinear Algebra.
He is on the Executive Board of GAMM (Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics).