Curriculum Vitae

General Information.

• Born in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
• Citizenship: German; landed Canadian immigrant.
• Current position: Professor (tenured) at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
• Field of research: Algebra and Model Theory, Valuation Theory, Ordered Structures.
• I have studied mathematics, mathematical logic, physics, astronomy, philosophy and history of sciences at the universities of Munich, Münster, Konstanz and Heidelberg.
• I am a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Canadian Mathematical Society, the German Mathematical Society (DMV), the Association of Symbolic Logic, and the DVMLG (german logicians).
• I have created and am maintaining the Valuation Theory Home Page.
• I am married to Katarzyna Kuhlmann. We have three lovely daughters: Noura, born 1987, and Naila, born 1990, from my side, and Martyna, born 1990, from her side.

Degrees.

• Dec. 1995: Habilitation (Dr. habil.) and Venia Legendi, Mathematics, University of Heidelberg.
• Feb. 1990: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude), University of Heidelberg. Advisor: Peter Roquette.
• Nov. 1983: Teacher's Diploma (Staatsexamen, with distinction), Mathematics, University of Münster.
• Jan. 1982: Master's Diploma (with distinction), University of Münster. Advisor: Falko Lorenz.
• June 1979: Philosophicum (exam in philosophy and pedagogics, with distinction), University of Münster.

Positions and Grants.

• Since July 2004: Professor, tenured
  NSERC grant: 16,000 Canadian Dollar per year
• Since July 2001: Associate Professor, tenured
• Since July 1999: Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
• 1998/99: Assistant professor term position at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
• 1997/98: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
• Academic year 1996/97: Visiting member of the Fields Institute, Toronto.
• Apr. 1995 - June 1996: Assistant professor (C1), Mathematisches Institut, University of Heidelberg.
• Jan. 1995 - Mar. 1995: Visiting professor at Chandigarh University, India.
• Apr. 1990 - Dec. 1994: Assistant professor (C1), Mathematisches Institut, University of Heidelberg.
• Apr. 1985 - Mar. 1990: Associate researcher, Mathematisches Institut, University of Heidelberg.
• 1983 and 1984: Doctoral scholarship of ``Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes''.
• 1975 - 1980: Scholarship of ``Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes''.

Conferences organized.

• Together with Dale Cutkosky, Sara Faridi and Irena Swanson I organised a summer school (2 weeks) and conference (1 week) Valuation Theory and Integral Closures in Commutative Algebra at the University of Ottawa (July 2006). We received a funding of CAD 30.000 from the Fields Institute. Together with Hagen Knaf I gave a lecture series on valuation theory and local uniformization.
• I was member of the scientific committee for the Workshop on Valuation Theory and its Applications , held at the University of Campinas, Brazil, March 21-24, 2006
• Together with Zoe Chatzidakis I have organized the Fifth Annual Colloquiumfest, Paris, April 2004 at the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris.
• Research in Teams on Local uniformization and resolution of singularities at the Banff International Research Station, three weeks in Summer of 2003 (together with Dale Cutkosky).
• The Second Annual Colloquiumfest, Saskatoon, March 2001, the Third Annual Colloquiumfest, Saskatoon, March 2002 and the Fourth Annual Colloquiumfest, Saskatoon, March 2003 (together with Salma Kuhlmann and Murray Marshall).
• I was a local organizer of the CMS Summer 2001 Meeting in Saskatoon, and organized a Special Session on Model Theoretic Algebra (together with Bradd Hart and Salma Kuhlmann).
• Colloquiumfest in honour of the 60th Birthday of Murray Marshall, Saskatoon, March 2000 (together with Salma Kuhlmann)
• International Conference and Workshop on Valuation Theory, Saskatoon, July/August 1999 (together with Salma Kuhlmann and Murray Marshall). Proceedings of this conference in two volumes have appeared in the Fields Institute Communications Series, published by the American Mathematical Society.

Research visits.

• Summer of 2008: four weeks at the University of Konstanz, visiting A. Prestel, one week at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, visiting B. Teissier and the Jussieu logic group, two weeks at the University of Kattowice, visiting K. Osiak
• Pariticipation in the research program Model Theory, Algebraic and Analytic Geometry at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (6 weeks in the summer of 2005)
• September 2003 - June 2004: sabbatical stay at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu (Université Paris 6/7) as a member of the Equipe Géométrie et Dynamique, and at the Laboratoire de Mathématiques de l'Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines as a member of the Equipe Algèbre-Géométrie. I also frequently worked with members of the Equipe de Logique Mathématique at Université Paris 7.
• May 2001: One week visit to Columbia University, Missouri, USA (following an invitation by Dale Cutkosky).
• June 1998: One month visit to the University of LeMans, France (following an invitation by M. Giraudet and G. Leloup).
• May 1998: One week visit to the "Model theory of fields" program at the MSRI in Berkeley.
• November 1997: One month visit to the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (following an invitation by Lou van den Dries).
• Academic year 1996/97: Visiting member of the Fields Institute, Toronto, for the Algebraic Model Theory Program.
• April/May 1996: One month visit to the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, for the special semester on real algebraic geometry and ordered structures.
• Jan. - Mar. 1995: Three months visit to the University of Chandigarh, India (following an invitation by Profs. Sankaran and Sudesh K. Khanduja), including one week visit to the Tata Institute, Bombay (following an invitation by Prof. Parimala).
• Feb./Mar. 1992: Five weeks visit to the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, for the emphasis year on field arithmetic.
• Sep. 1988: One month visit to the University of Bordeaux (following an invitation by M. Matignon).

Last update: June 27, 2011