Marlis Hochbruck (born 12 June 1964) is a German applied mathematician and

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known for her research on matrix exponentials,

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s, and their applications to the numerical solution of

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s. She is a professor in the Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics at the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

Education and career

Hochbruck went to high school in

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, and studied Technomathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1989. She completed her Ph.D. at Karlsruhe in 1992. Her dissertation, ''Lanczos und Krylov-Verfahren für nicht-Hermitesche lineare Systeme'', was jointly supervised by Wilhelm Niethammer and Michael Eiermann. After postdoctoral research at

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, she became an assistant at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

in 1992, and moved to the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

in 1994. She obtained her first professorship in 1998, in applied mathematics at the University of Düsseldorf, declining two offers of professorships at other German universities in the same year. In 2010 she returned to Karlsruhe as a professor. As well as holding her professorship at Karlsruhe, she has been a vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 2014.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Interview with Hochbruck in ''Forschung'' magazine
(in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hochbruck, Marlis 1964 births Living people 20th-century German mathematicians Women mathematicians Numerical analysts Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 21st-century German mathematicians