Michael Griebel is a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

. His research focus lies on

scientific computing Computational science, also known as scientific computing, technical computing or scientific computation (SC), is a division of science, and more specifically the Computer Sciences, which uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and s ...

, and he helped develop computer algorithms for

sparse grid Sparse is a computer software tool designed to find possible coding faults in the Linux kernel. Unlike other such tools, this static analysis tool was initially designed to only flag constructs that were likely to be of interest to kernel de ...

s. Griebel was director of the Institute for Numerical Simulation at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

from 2003 to 2016. He is currently director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing in

Sankt Augustin Sankt Augustin (; Ripuarian: ''Sank Aujustin'') is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Steyler missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The missionaries estab ...

. at Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, retrieved 2010-09-20.

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Research group of Michael Griebel
Living people 20th-century German mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Bonn Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century German mathematicians {{Germany-scientist-stub