Professional Development

 

Born September 7, 1936 in Kassel (Germany)

1942 – 56 School education (Elementary School, Gymnasium)
1956 – 57 University of Göttingen (Germany)
1957– 58 University of Vienna (Austria)
1958 – 62 University of Hamburg (Germany)
1959 – 60 Fulbright Grantee and teaching assistant:
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley (USA)

Fields of study: Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Education

1962 States Examination
1962 – 65 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Assistant Professor): University of Hamburg
1964 Second States Examination (Lehramt an Gymnasien)
1964 Doctor’s degree in Mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.)
1965 – 68 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent: University of Erlangen (Germany)
1965 – 66 Assistant Professor: Department of Mathematics
University of Washington, Seattle (USA)
1968 Habilitation (Venia Legendi)
1968 – 69 Dozent (Lecturer): University of Erlangen

Since 1969 Full Professor: University of Tübingen (Germany)

1975 Offer of a Full Professorship at the University of Münster
1985 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
Hokkaido University, Sapporo
1988 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo

2004 Honorary Doctor’s Degree, Debrecen (Hungary)

Visiting professorships since 1971 :

Tulane University, New Orleans 1971
Instituto de Mathematica Pura e Applicada, Rio de Janeiro 1973
Ecoles Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne 1974 – 75
University of Western Australia, Perth 1976
National University of Taiwan, Taipei 1982
Murdoch University, Perth 1989, 1992
Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Marseille 1991, 1994
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
1979 – 80, 1984, 1989, 1993, 1998, 2000,
since 2002 each year for about 2 months