Awards

2016

Strategic Scientist of the City of Beijing
 

2012

Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China

Golden badge of honor of the Freie Universität Berlin
 

2010

Election as Member of the European Academy of Sciences
 

Alwin-Walther Medal, TU Darmstadt
 

2009

Election as Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
 

2007

ICIAM Maxwell prize
(for originality in applied mathematics)
 

2001

Election as Member of the Berlin Brandenburg
Academy of Sciences and Humanities
 

2000

Docteur honoris causa, Université de Genève
 

1994

Gerhard Damköhler Medal
(for fundamental contributions to chemical engineering)
 

1965-69

Scholarship Studienstiftung
 

1963-65

Bayerisches Stipendium für besonders Begabte
 

Offers

2015

Senior Professor, Chaire Thématique FaciLe, ICS - Institut du Calcul et de la Simulation, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)

2012

Offer Professor Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, KSA: not realized
 

Senior Professor Numerical Analysis, Institute of Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin
 

1995

Offer Full Professor RWTH Aachen, Scientific and Engineering Computing,
connected with the position as Director of an interdisciplinary competence center to be established: not realized
 

1987

Offer President of ZIB: realized
 

1986

Offer Full Professor FU Berlin, Scientific Computing,
connected with the position as Vice-President and
Scientific Director of the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB): realized
 

1985

Offer Full Professor FU Berlin, Numerical Analysis
(following K.H. Hoffmann): not realized
 

1981

Offer Full Professor, RPI New York,
Computational Mathematics: not realized
 

1978

Offer Full Professor, University of Heidelberg,
Numerical Analysis (following W. Romberg): realized