Ulrich Müller-Funk
Ulrich Müller-Funk (born October 4, 1947 in Stuttgart ) is a German mathematician and business computer scientist as well as professor emeritus for quantitative methods at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .
Career
Müller-Funk studied mathematics and economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1968 to 1976 . He received his diploma in mathematics in 1975. He wrote his diploma thesis on the subject of Asymptotics of Conditional Tests . His doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. took place in 1980 also at the University of Freiburg. The thesis was entitled Sequential Signed Rank Statistics and Their Applications to Sequential Significance Tests . She was awarded the Goedecke Research Prize. 1986 followed, also in Freiburg, his habilitation to the Dr. rer. nat. habil. with a license to teach mathematics.
After his habilitation, Müller-Funk went to Münster. From 1987 to 1990 Müller-Funk held a professorship there in the department of mathematics and computer science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. In 1990 he moved to the Faculty of Business and Economics, where he took over the professorship for quantitative methods at the Institute for Information Systems from 1990 until his retirement in 2013. During this time he was u. a. Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics (1999–2000), Vice Rector for Strategic Planning, Personnel Development and Evaluation (2002–2006) and Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) (2004–2013).
Müller-Funk's main research areas are:
- Data analysis and information mining
- Nonparametric Statistics
- Stop problems
Awards
- Goedecke Research Prize 1980
Writings (monographs)
- Mathematical Programming and Optimal Stopping in Sequential Testing Theory , Habilitation, Freiburg 1986.
Others
Ulrich Müller-Funk is a brother of Wolfgang Müller-Funk .
Individual evidence
- ^ Norbert Schmitz, History of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , p. 156
Web links
- Profile Müller-Funk on the website of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
- Video of the last lecture by Müller-Funk on the website of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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SURNAME | Müller-Funk, Ulrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician, business computer scientist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |