o.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Dr.h.c Heinz W. Engl

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Short Curriculum Vitae:

• born March 28, 1953, in Linz, Austria; married, two daughters
• Diploma in Technical Mathematics: Linz 1975
• Doctorate sub auspiciis praesidentis: Linz 1977
• Habilitation for Mathematics: Linz 1979
• 1981: Associate Professor, Linz
• Since 1988: Full Professor of Industrial Mathematics, Linz (Currently on leave)
• Since 2003: Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2000-2003 Corresponding Member)
• 2007: Pioneer Prize of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Oct. 1, 2007 - Sept. 30, 2011: Vice Rector for Research and Career Development, University of Vienna
• May 2009: Appointed as SIAM Fellow for contributions to inverse and ill-posed problems
• 2009: Johannes Kepler Prize of the Upper Austrian Government
• 2010: Honorary Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai
• Since Oct. 1, 2011: Rector of the University of Vienna
• 2013: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Former and Current Positions:

• 1992-1999: Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation
• 1995-2000: Dean of the College of Science and Engineering of the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
• Head of the Industrial Mathematics Institute at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz until 2007
• Director, RICAM (Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Chairman of the Industrial Mathematics Competence Center
• Scientific Adviser in the Software Competence Center Hagenberg
• Member of the FWF Special Research Area Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing
• Project Doktorandenkolleg Molecular Bioanalytics: From molecular recognition to membrane transport (MoBA)

Visiting Positions and offers:

• 1976/77: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• 1978/79: University of Delaware, USA
• 1980/81 and 1986/87: University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• 1986 and 1989: Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University
• 1988/89: University of Vienna, Austria
• 2001: University of Oxford, UK: Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and St.Catherine's College (Visiting Fellow)
• 1994: Call to University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, as Full Professor of Applied Mathematics
• 2001: Call to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, as Dean of Science and Full Professor of Mathematics
• 2003/04: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, leading a Special Semester on Inverse Problems

Memberships in Editorial Boards:

• Surveys on Mathematics for Industry (Managing Editor)
• Inverse Problems (Scientific Advisory Board)
• Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems
• Mathematical Modelling and Computational Experiment
• Chinese Journal of Engineering Mathematics (the journal of CSIAM)
• European Journal of Applied Mathematics
• Mathematical Reviews Editorial Committee (AMS)

Professional Service:

• 1991-1997: Member of the Board of GAMM
• 1992-2000: Board Member of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI), President: 1994-1996
• 1995-1999: Member of CICIAM
• 1997-2001: Chairman of the Committee on Applied Mathematics of the European Mathematical Society
• Member of the SIAM Committee on Programs
• Member of many Program Committees including ICIAM1995, ICIAM2003, SIAM2002
• Member of the Strategy Board of MACSINet
• 1994-2003: Member of the Board of the Austrian Science Foundation FWF
• 2003-2007: Member and vice-chair of the University Council of Graz University of Technology
• Since 2006: Managing Editor "Radon Series on Computational and Applied Mathematics", Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin / New York

Owner of MathConsult GmbH, the developer of the Financial Derivatives Pricing Tool UnRisk

Research Interests:

• inverse and ill-posed problems, industrial mathematics

Member of Rotary Club Wien