Peter Kunkel (mathematician)

Peter Kunkel (born September 22, 1957 in Heidelberg ) is a German mathematician and professor of numerical mathematics .

Life

After graduating from high school in May 1976, Peter Kunkel studied mathematics with a minor in physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1976 to 1983 and graduated with a diploma in mathematics in June 1983 with the topic "An adaptive method for solving Volterra's integral equations of the second kind" from. He received his doctorate with the topic "Quadratic convergent methods for the computation of unfolded singularities" in June 1986 for Dr. rer. nat. and completed his habilitation in December 1990 under “A Unified Approach to the Numerical Treatment of Singular Points” on the subject of “The theory of stars of order” .

From 1983 to 1988 Kunkel was a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 123 Stochastic Mathematical Models at Heidelberg University. From 1989 to 1995 he then held a position as a university assistant in the mathematics department of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . A transitional employment as a university professor (C3) for applied mathematics at the University of Augsburg followed from 1994 to 1995. He then accepted a substitute for the professorship for numerics and scientific computing at the University of Leipzig from 1996 to 1997. From 1999 to 2000 Kunkel held a substitute professorship for numerics and scientific computing at the University of Leipzig. Since 2001, Kunkel has been a university professor for numerics and scientific computing at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Leipzig.

Web links

• Peter Kunkels page at the mathematical institute in Leipzig