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Christoph Schwab

b. 1962

German mathematician

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Born 1962. Christoph Schwab is a teacher and mathematician.

Christoph Schwab (born 14 October 1962 in Flörsheim am Main, Germany) is a German applied mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis of partial differential equations and boundary integral equations.

Education and career He studied mathematics from 1982 to 1985 at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. By means of a Fulbright Scholarship, from 1985 he studied at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he received his PhD in 1989. was written under the supervision of Ivo Babuška. Schwab was a postdoc for the academic year 1989–1990 at London's University of Westminster. At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County he was an assistant professor from 1990 to 1995 and was appointed in 1995 an associate professor. At ETH Zurich, Schwab was from 1995 to 1998 an associate professor and is since 1998 a full professor. For the academic year 1993–1994 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Deutschland Wissenschaftliches Zentrum (IBM German Scientific Center) in Heidelberg.

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Education
Technical University of Darmstadt, University of Maryland
Employers
ETH Zurich
Awards
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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Who is Christoph Schwab?

German mathematician

When was Christoph Schwab born?

Christoph Schwab was born on 14 October 1962.

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Christoph Schwab is a teacher and mathematician.

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