Prof. Dr.

Karl Kunisch

Scientific Director

Group Leader

Optimization and Optimal Control

http://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/karl.kunisch/

Contact

Email: Karl.Kunisch(at)oeaw.ac.at

Telephone: +43 316 380 5162

Biographical sketch

• Born on Sept. 16, 1952 in Linz, Austria; married, 3 children
• 1975: "Diploma" Degree from Technical University of Graz
• 1975: Master Degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
• 1978: Ph.D. Degree from Technical University of Graz
• 1980: Habilitation at Technical University of Graz

FORMER AND CURRENT POSITIONS

• September 1976 - March 1986: Assistant at Institute of Mathematics, Technical University of Graz, Austria.
• March 1986 - October 1993: Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Graz, Austria ("außerordentlicher Professor").
• September 1979 - July 1980: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
• Academic years 1978/79 and 1981/82: Joint appointment at the University of Graz, Austria.
• September 1982 - June 1983: Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, and at Brown University, Providence, RI,USA.
• January 1985 - July 1985: Visiting Associate Professor, Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
• March 1985 - February 1987: Consultant at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at NASA Langley, Virginia, USA.
• December 1985: Declined call to C3-Professor in Erlangen, Germany.
• February 1989 - July 1989: Visiting Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
• September 1991 - March 1992: Visiting Professor at Institute de Rechere en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, France.
• 1992: Call to chairs in Berlin and Vienna.
• January 1994: Visiting Professor at Paris IX (Université de Paris-Dauphine).
• March 1994: Visiting Professor at Institute de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA9, Rocquencourt, France.
• November 1993 - October 1996: Professor of Mathematics (C4) at Technical University Berlin.
• November 1996 - present: Full Professor of Mathematics at University of Graz, Austria.
• 1998: Call to C4-Professorship at University of München.
• 2003: offer to C4-Professorship at the University of Stuttgart.
• since Oct. 2004: Group Leader of the Group "Optimization and Optimal Control" at RICAM.

Academic Honors and Awards

• Pro Scienta-Scholarship 1974 - 1977.
• Research Award of Theodor-Körner-Fonds, Vienna, April 1979.
• Fulbright Travel Scholarship in academic years 1979/80, 1985.
• Max Kade Scholarship 1982/83.
• Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science,March 1990.
• Award of Christian Doppler Laboratory Fellowship, April 1992.

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