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Education:
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1963 Vordiplom in Mathematics and Physics, University of Freiburg
1966 Diplom in Mathematics and Physics, University
of Hamburg
1968 PhD in Mathematics, University of Hamburg.
Advisor: Ludwig Collatz
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Positions held:
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1966-1973:
Computing Centre of the University of Hamburg
1971-1972: Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Bloomington,
Indiana
1973-1981: Professor for Applied Mathematics at the University of Saarbruecken
1974-1975: Head of the Computing Centre of the University of Saarbruecken
Spring 1978: Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon in Corvallis
1981-present: Professor for Applied Mathematics at the University of Muenster
1984-1985: Chairman of the Department of Mathematics
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Honors:
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2002:
Honorary Doctorate, University of Saarbrücken.
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Affiliation with
Journals
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1995-1999:
Honorary Editor of Inverse Problems
2000-present: International Advisory Panel of Inverse Problems
1997-present: Editorial Board of The Journal of Fourier Analysis and
Applications
1992-1995: Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging
1998-present: Advisory Board of Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems
1996-present: Associate Editor of International Journal of Imaging Systems
and Technology
1996-2001: Editorial Board of SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics
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Grants (since 1990)
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Bildrekonstruktion aus Rückstreuung (DFG, 2003 – present)
Fortgeschrittene Tomographische
Verfahren (DFG, 1990-1992)
Ultraschall-Tomographie (DFG, 1997-2002)
Schall-Pyrometrie (BMBF, 1994-2000)
Emission Tomography (Marconi Medical
Systems, 1998-2002)
Tomography in Furnaces
(RWE, 1990-1994)
Tomography in Geoscience
(INTAS, 1996-2000)
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Patents:
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Fast
Transform For Reconstruction Of Rotating-Slat
Data, US Patent Nr. 0207734
Apparatus
and Method for Imaging with Wavefields Using
Inverse
Scattering Techniques. US Patent Nr. 6005916, 1999.
Computer-Tomograph. Deutsches
Patent Nr. DE 4140631 C1, 1991.
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Membership:
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GAMM (Gesellschaft fuer
Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik)
DFG-Fachausschuss Mathematik, 2000-2004
DMV (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung)
Committee on the Mathematics and Physics of Emerging
Dynamic Biomedical Imaging (National Research Council),
1994-1996
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Graduate students:
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16 PhD students
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Research interests:
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Numerical
Analysis of inverse problems, in particular
algorithms for image reconstruction in tomography and
related areas
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Publications:
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About 100
research articles, 2 books (1986, 2001), 3 books edited
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