Daniel Kressner

Education and career Kressner was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt. He studied Mathematics at TU Chemnitz from 1997 to 2001 and gained his PhD from TU Berlin in 2004. His PhD thesis ("Numerical Methods and Software for General and Structured Eigenvalue Problems") 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 in 2005 and Umeå University in 2006. In 2018, he was the John von Neumann visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich. nonlinear eigenvalue problems, and low-rank approximation techniques for matrix problems.

Selected publications