About Me

• born 1963 in Darmstadt, Germany
• married, one child

Education and work

• 1983 – 1988 studies at TU Darmstadt
• 1991 – 1992 PhDs at TU Darmstadt and KTH Stockholm
• 1991 – 1992 Mittag Leffler Institute Stockholm
• 1992 – 1993 Positions in industry
• 1994 – 1997 TU Berlin, habilitation
• 1997 – 2001 Assistant Professor ETH Zurich
• since 2001 Full professor TUM

Awards (selection)

• Multimedia Innovationspreis (with Cinderella, Multi Media Transfer 1997)
• European Academic software award (with Cinderella, EASA 2000)
• Deutscher Bildungssoftwarepreis (with Cinderella, digital 2001)
• Media Prix (with MatheVital 2008)
• Max von Bauernfeind Medaille (with ix-quadrat, TUM 2010)
• Ars Legendi (for teaching, Stifterverband und HRK 2011)
• Tabby Awards, user's choice (with iOrnament 2015)

Other things:

• Advisory board for the Math exhibition in the Deutsches Museum
• Advisory board MoMath, New York
• Close collaboration with imaginary.org
• National Jury Jugend Forscht since 2010
• PI at the SFB Transregio 109 Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics
• Dean of our faculty 2015-2018

• dynamic geometry
• combinatorial geometry (polytopes, oriented Matroids)
• invariant theory, (projective geometry, algebraic geometry, tensor diagrams)
• geometric complexity theory
• discrete differential geometry (networks of incidence theorems)
• automatic theorem proving
• use of modern hardware (GPU, Input Sensors etc)
• software ergonomics and user interfaces
• mathematics in education
• science communication