Volker Mehrmann


Volker Ludwig Mehrmann is a German mathematician.

Education and career

At Bielefeld University he completed his Promotion in 1982 under Ludwig Elsner and his Habilitation in 1987 with a dissertation on control theory. Mehrmann was from 1990 to 1992 a Vertretungsprofessor at the RWTH Aachen University. From 1993 to 2000 he was a professor at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Since 2000 he has been a professor at the Institute for Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin. From June 2008 to May 2016 he was the spokesperson for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft's mathematical center called Matheon. From January 2011 to December 2013 he was president of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik. In 2011 he received from the European Research Council an advanced grant for modeling, simulation, and control of multiphysics systems.
Mehrmann is a member of the Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften. In 2015 he gave the Gauss Lecture. He was awarded in 2018 the W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize and in 2019 the Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra.
Mehrmann's research deals with numerical linear algebra, differential-algebraic equations, and control theory. Volker Mehrmann is on the editorial staffs of several journals, including Linear Algebra and Its Applications and Numerische Mathematik.

Selected publications