Daniel Kressner (born 7 April 1978) is a German

numerical analyst Numerical may refer to: * Number * Numerical digit * Numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical ...

. He has a Chair of Numerical Algorithms and High Performance Computing in the Institute of Mathematics at EPF Lausanne.

Education and career

Kressner was born in

Karl-Marx-Stadt Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

. He studied Mathematics at

TU Chemnitz Chemnitz University of Technology () is a public university in Chemnitz, Germany. With around 8,300 students, it is the third largest university in Saxony. It was founded in 1836 as ''Königliche Gewerbschule'' (Royal Mercantile College) and ...

from 1997 to 2001 and gained his PhD from

TU Berlin Tu or TU may refer to: Language * Tu language * Tu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign * ''tu'' or ''tú'' the 2nd-person singular subject pronoun in many languages; see personal pronoun * T–V distinction (from the Latin pronouns ''tu'' and ''vos'') ...

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 ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

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 The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...

in 2005 and

Umeå University Umeå University (; Ume Sami language, Ume Sami: ) is a public university, public research university located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present bord ...

in 2006. In 2018 he was the John von Neumann visiting professor at TU Munich. Kressner has been the Editor-in-Chief of

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software ''ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software'' (''TOMS'') is a quarterly scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of numeric, symbolic, algebraic, and geometric computing applications. The journal publish ...

in 2017, and he is on the editorial boards of journals including the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and its Applications,

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis The ''SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis'' (SINUM; until 1965: ''Journal of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, Series B: Numerical Analysis'') is a peer-reviewed mathematical journal published by the Society for Industrial and Applie ...

, and

Linear Algebra and Its Applications ''Linear Algebra and its Applications'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Elsevier and covering matrix theory and finite-dimensional linear algebra. History The journal was established in January 1968 with A.J. Hoffm ...

Research

Kressner is best known for his work on numerical methods, in particular for linear eigenvalue problems, nonlinear eigenvalue problems, and low-rank approximation techniques for matrix problems.

Recognition

He has been awarded a second

Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis The Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a biennial prize established in 1985 by the IMA in honour of mathematician Leslie Fox (1918-1992). The prize honours "young numerical analysts ...

from the

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics (another being the London Mathematical Society). The IMA aims to advance ...

in 2007. In 2011 he received the John Todd Award from the

Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics () is a center for mathematical research in Oberwolfach, Germany. It was founded by mathematician Wilhelm Süss in 1944. It organizes weekly workshops on diverse topics where mathematicians and ...

. He was elected as a Fellow of the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...

, in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for contributions in numerical linear and multilinear algebra and scientific computing".

Selected publications

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