Education

Diploma (Mathematics), Summer 2001, TU Chemnitz;
Ph.D. (summa cum laude, Mathematics), Spring 2004, TU Berlin.

Appointments

Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter, Sfb 557: Beeinflussung komplexer turbulenter Scherströmungen, TU Berlin (Fall 2001 - Summer 2002); Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter, DFG Research Center: Mathematics for key technologies, TU Berlin (Summer 2002 - Spring 2005); Emmy Noether fellow (Phase I), U Zagreb and U Umeå (Spring 2005 - Spring 2007); Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter, TU Berlin (Spring 2007 - Fall 2007); Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich (from Fall 2007).

Refereed Publications

See list of publications.

Software

20+ Fortran subroutines in SLICOT, mostly addressing Toeplitz matrix problems; Web computing with SLICOT (based on PHP and MySQL); highly efficient Fortran routines for reordering eigenvalues and solving generalized eigenvalue problems; HAPACK - Fortran/Matlab routines for solving Hamiltonian eigenvalue problems.

Scholarships, Awards

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Spring 2000 - Summer 2001), SIAM student travel award (Fall 2001 and Summer 2003), Marie Curie fellowship (Spring 2003 - Summer 2003), best poster prize at IWASEP (2004), Emmy Noether fellowship (Spring 2005 - Spring 2007), Joachim-Tiburtius-Preis - by the LKRP for the best dissertations of all three Berlin universities (2nd prize, 2005); Leslie fox prize competition (2nd prize, 2007).

Academic Service

Vice chair of GAMM Activity Group Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra (since 2009).

Reviews, Refereeing Work

Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt; Automatica, BIT, Electron. J. Linear Algebra, IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, J. Franklin Inst., Linear Algebra Appl., Numer. Algorithms, Numer. Math., SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Systems Control Lett, and others.

A more detailed CV is available upon upon request.