Daniel Kressner

Freitag, 07. April 1978

Daniel Kressner (born 7 April 1978) is a German numerical analyst. He has a Chair of Numerical Algorithms and High Performance Computing in the Institute of Mathematics at EPF Lausanne. Kressner was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt. He studied Mathematics at TU Chemnitz from 1997 to 2001 and gained his Ph.D. from TU Berlin in 2004. His Ph.D. thesis ("Numerical Methods and Software for General and Structured EigenvalueProblems") was supervised by Volker Mehrmann. He was appointed assistant professor in Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich in 2007. In 2011 he was appointed tenure-track assistant professor in Mathematics at EPF Lausanne, where he became associate professor in 2012 and full professor in 2017. Kressner held visiting positions as an Emmy Noether Fellow of the DFG at the University of Zagreb