Volker Ludwig Mehrmann (born 1955) is a German mathematician.

Education and career

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization a ...

he completed his PhD in 1982 under Ludwig Elsner and his

Habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in 1987 with a dissertation on control theory. Mehrmann was from 1990 to 1992 a ''Vertretungsprofessor'' (interim professor) at the

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

. From 1993 to 2000 he was a professor at the

Chemnitz University of Technology Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

. Since 2000 he has been a professor at the Institute for Mathematics at the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

. From June 2008 to May 2016 he was the spokesperson for the

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...

's mathematical center called Matheon. From January 2011 to December 2013 he was president of the

Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ("Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics"), often referred to by the acronym GAMM, is a German society for the promotion of science, founded in 1922 by the physicist Ludwig Prandtl and th ...

(GAMM). In 2011 he received from the

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

(ERC) an advanced grant for modeling, simulation, and control of

multiphysics In computational modelling, multiphysics simulation (often shortened to simply "multiphysics") is defined as the simultaneous simulation of different aspects of a physical system or systems and the interactions among them. For example, simultaneous ...

systems. From 2019 to 2022 he is president of the

European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current ...

(EMS). Mehrmann is a member of the Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (Acatech) and of

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

. In 2015 he gave the Gauss Lecture. He was awarded in 2018 the W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize and in 2019 the

Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra The Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra is awarded every three years by the International Linear Algebra Society. It recognizes research, contributions, and achievements at the highest level of linear algebra and was first awarded in 1993. It may ...

. He was named a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to scientific computing and numerical linear algebra, and service and leadership in the mathematical community". Mehrmann's research deals with

numerical linear algebra Numerical linear algebra, sometimes called applied linear algebra, is the study of how matrix operations can be used to create computer algorithms which efficiently and accurately provide approximate answers to questions in continuous mathematics. ...

differential-algebraic equation In electrical engineering, a differential-algebraic system of equations (DAEs) is a system of equations that either contains differential equations and algebraic equations, or is equivalent to such a system. In mathematics these are examples of ...

s, and

control theory Control theory is a field of mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a ...

. Volker Mehrmann is on the editorial staffs of several journals, including ''

Linear Algebra and Its Applications ''Linear Algebra and its Applications'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Elsevier and covering matrix theory and finite-dimensional linear algebra. History The journal was established in January 1968 with A.J. Hoffma ...

'' and ''

Numerische Mathematik ''Numerische Mathematik'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal on numerical analysis. It was established in 1959 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal is indexed by ''Mathematical Reviews'' and Zentralblatt MATH. Its 20 ...

''.

Selected publications

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mehrmann, Volker 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Numerical analysts Members of Academia Europaea Bielefeld University alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin 1955 births Living people Academic staff of the Chemnitz University of Technology Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra editors Fellows of the American Mathematical Society European Research Council grantees Presidents of the European Mathematical Society