Werner Siegfried Weiglhofer

Werner Siegfried Weiglhofer (25 August 1962 — 12 January 2003) was an Austrian applied mathematician, physicist, engineer and mountaineer, who was a professor at the Department of Mathematics at University of Glasgow. He was best known for his contributions to the electromagnetic theory of complex materials.

Biography Werner Siegfried Weiglhofer was born in Bruck an der Mur on 25 August 1962. He obtained his doctorate in technical sciences from Graz University of Technology in 1986; his doctoral studies focused on scalar Hertz potentials in anisotropic materials. Following his post-doctoral studies at University of Adelaide on the basis of an Australian-European Fellowship, he joined the Department of Mathematics at University of Glasgow as a research assistant in 1988, working on magnetohydrodynamics. Becoming a lecturer at the department in 1991, he eventually was tenured as a professor in 2002.