Heinz Engl

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Heinz Werner Engl (born March 28, 1953) is an Austrian mathematician, the rector of the University of Vienna.[1]

Engl was born in Linz. He studied at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, where he earned an engineering diploma in technical mathematics in 1975,[2] a doctorate in 1977,[3] and a habilitation in 1979. He worked at the University of Linz starting in 1976 as an assistant professor, was promoted and tenured in 1981, and became a full professor in 1988. His research in this period concerned inverse problems in applied mathematics. He became vice-rector of the University of Vienna in 2007, and rector in 2013.[2]

With Martin Hanke and Andreas Neubauer he is the author of the book Regularization of Inverse Problems (Mathematics and its Applications 375, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996).[4]

Engl won the Theodor Körner Prize in 1978,[2] the Wilhelm Exner Medal in 1998,[5] and the ICIAM Pioneer Prize (jointly with Ingrid Daubechies) in 2007.[6] He became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2000, and a full member in 2003.[2] He became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009,[7] an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012,[8] and a member of Academia Europaea in 2013.[9] He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.[10] In 2012, Saarland University gave him an honorary doctorate.[2]

References

  1. Rectorate of the University of Vienna, retrieved 2015-02-21.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-02-21.
  3. Heinz Engl at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Review of Regularization of Inverse Problems by Ulrich Tautenhahn (1997), MR 1408680,
  5. Exner Medal awardee list, retrieved 2015-02-21.
  6. ICIAM Pioneer Prize, SIAM, October 21, 2007, retrieved 2015-02-21.
  7. SIAM Fellows class of 2009, retrieved 2015-02-21.
  8. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-02-21.
  9. Academia Europaea member profile, retrieved 2015-02-21.
  10. Austrian members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, retrieved 2015-02-22.