Short CV


4 April 2024 ISIMM Senior Prize 2024 of International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics
since 1.10.2023 External Honorary Member of WIAS and Retired Professor at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2022-2025 MATH+ Distinguished Fellow
2021-2023 Chair of MATH+ Council (co-chair 2018-2021)
2015-2023 Authorized Representative of the WIAS Director
2011-2020 Treasurer of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and Head of IMU Secretariat at WIAS
2011-2017 ERC Advanced Grant "Analysis of Multiscale Systems Driven by Functionals"
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.