
Prof. Dr.
Ulrich Langer
Former Group Leader
Computational Methods for PDEs
Contact
Email: Ulrich.Langer(at)ricam.oeaw.ac.at
Telephone:
Biographical sketch
- born on August 17, 1952 in Marienberg, Germany
- 1971-1975: study of Mathematics at the Technical University Chemnitz, Germany
- 1975: Diploma degree (Dipl.-Math.), Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
- 1980: Doctoral degree (Ph.D.), State University of St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1986: Habilitation for Mathematics, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
- 1992: Call to a Full Professorship for "Numerical Mathematics" at the Institute of Mathematics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (1993 offer accepted)
- 1992: Call to a Full Professorship (C4) for "Numerical Mathematics" at the Institute of Geometrics and Practical Mathematics, RWTH Aachen, Germany (1993 offer refused)
- 1995: Call to a Full Professorship (C4) for "Scientific Computing" at the Institute of Scientific Computing (IWR), University Heidelberg (1995 offer refused)
- 1998-2003: Member of the Council of the GAMM
- 1999-2007: Member of the WG 2.5 of the IFIP
- 1999-2007: Member of the Scientific Council of the WIAS Berlin (Germany)
- 2000: Call to a Full Professorship (C4) for "Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing" at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany (2001 offer refused)
- 2002: Sabbatical, Summer semester 2002
- 2003-2011: Member of the board of the Austrian Science Fund FWF
- 2005-2011: Member of the PESC Standing Committee of the ESF
- 2008-2013: Member of the Panel 1 "Mathematics" of the ERC for evaluating the proposals for the advanced grants
- 2013: Sabbatical, Summer semester 2013
FORMER AND CURRENT POSITIONS
- 1975-1976: PhD student at the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
- 1976-1980: PhD student at the Faculty for Mathematics and Mechanics at the Leningrad University, Russia
- 1980-1987: PostDoc at the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
- 1986: Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia (6 months)
- 1987-1989: University Docent at the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
- 1989-1993: Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
- Since 1993: Full Professor and holder of Chair for Numerical Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics
- 1995: Visiting professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University Kuwait, March 2002
- 1998-2003: Speaker of the Special Research Project SFB "Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing" supported by the F013
- 2002: Guest Professor at the Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, Spring Semester 2002
- 2003-2011: Deputy Director and Group Leader of the research group "Direct Field Problems" at the RICAM
- 01/2012-03/2013: Acting Director and Group Leader of the research group "Direct Field Problems" at the RICAM
- 04/2013-07/2013: MATHEON-Guest Professor at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, Summer Semester 2013
- 08/2013: RiP stay at Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach
- 10/2013-09/2020: Scientific Director at RICAM
Research interests
- Numerical Methods for PDEs
- Computational Mechanics
- Computational Electrodynamics
- Multi-Grid Methods
- Domain Decomposition Methods
- FEM, BEM, FEM-BEM-Coupling
- Parallel Computing