Wilfried Seidel (mathematician)
Wilfried Seidel (born January 27, 1950 in Munich ) is a German mathematician and university professor. Since October 2010 he has been President of the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg .
Life and work
After graduating from high school in 1969 and completing military service in the Bundeswehr, Seidel began studying physics at the Technical University of Munich . After completing his intermediate diploma, he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he successfully completed his studies in mathematics in 1978 with a diploma.
As a research assistant, he then worked again at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Munich, where he in 1983 on a theme of topological measure theory ( "carrier of Borel measures") at Ulrich Oppel to Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate. His next position took him to what was then the Bundeswehr University in Hamburg, where he worked as a research assistant and completed his habilitation in 1992 on a topic of statistical quality control . After various positions as a professor (Essen, Kiel, Hamburg), he finally returned to the University of the Federal Armed Forces in 1998 as a professor of mathematical methods in economics.
After Seidel represented the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg as dean in 2004 and from 2009 to 2010 , he became president of the university on October 1, 2010. With effect from April 1, 2018, he retired on March 23, 2018.
Seidel is a member of various scientific societies, including the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the International Statistical Institute .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilfried Seidel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wilfried Seidel in the German Digital Library
- Search for "Wilfried Seidel" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Wilfried Seidel ( memento from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Helmut Schmidt University
- Biography of Wilfried Seidel ( memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the Körber Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ HSU: Change in the office of president. In: Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. Retrieved February 3, 2020 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seidel, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |