Volker Mehrmann
German mathematician
Volker Ludwig Mehrmann (born 1955) is a German mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra, differential-algebraic equations, and control theory. He is on the editorial staffs of several journals, including Linear Algebra and Its Applications and Numerische Mathematik. From 2019 to 2022 he was president of the European Mathematical Society (EMS).
Education and career
Mehrmann studied mathematics at Bielefeld University, where he earned his Diploma (equivalent to an undergraduate degree) in 1979. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1982 under the supervision of Ludwig F. Elsner, following a spell at Kent State University, where he worked under Richard S. Varga. His dissertation was "On classes of matrices containing M-matrices and hermitian positive semidefinite matrices". He also received his habilitation in 1987 from the same university.
From 1990 to 1992 Mehrmann was a Vertretungsprofessor (interim professor) at the RWTH Aachen University. From 1993 to 2000 he was a professor at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Since 2000 he has been a professor at the Institute for Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin.
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