Eduard Zehnder - Curriculum Vitae#

Eduard Zehnder was born 1940 in Leuggern in Switzerland. He studied mathematics and physics from 1960 to 1965 at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, where he also completed his PhD degree in theoretical physics in 1971 under the direction of Res Jost.

Appintments:

• 1971 - 1972 Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (invited by Jürgen Moser)
  
• 1972 - 1974 Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Princeton (invited by Freeman Dyson)
  
• 1974 - 1976 Lecturer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) in Erlangen-Nürnberg
  
• 1976 - 1977 Associate Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
  
• 1977 - 1986 Chair of Analysis, RUB
  
• 1986 - 1988 Director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen
  
• 1988 - 2006 Professor, ETH Zürich
  
• Since 2006 Professor emeritus, ETH Zürich
  
• 9/1979 - 6/1980 Member of the School of Natural Sciences, IAS, Princeton
  
• 9/2001 - 12/2001 Member of the School of Mathematics, IAS, Princeton
  
• 9/2009 - 12/2009 Member of the School of Mathematics, IAS, Princeton
  
• 9/2011 - 4/2012 Member of the School of Mathematics, IAS, Princeton
  
• 9/2012 - 4/2013 Member of the School of Mathematics, IAS, Princeton

Honours:

• 1986 Plenary speaker at the ICM at the University of California, Berkeley
  
• 1999 Member of the German Academy Leopoldina
  
• 2006 Bergman-Lecturer at Stanford University
  
• 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Other Positions of Responsibility:

• 1980 - 1982 Chairman of the Faculty of Mathematics and Member of the Senate at RUB
  
• 1990 - 1991 Director of the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (FIM) at ETH Zürich
  
• 1990 - 1994 Member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU)
  
• 1996 - 1998 Chairman of the IMU-Panel “Differential Geometry and Global Analysis” for the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1998
  
• 1988 - 1999 Member of the Forschungskommission at ETH Zürich
  
• 1993 - 2001 Member of the Advisory Board of the Mathematical Research Institute, Oberwolfach, Germany
  
• 2001 - 2007 Member of the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

Other Activities:

• Co-Founder of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 237 “Unordnung und Grosse Fluktuationen”
  
• (1987 - 2002) at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Bochum, Duisburg-Essen
  
• Member of the Evaluation Committee for SFB’s and Forschungsschwerpunkte at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  
• Editor of mathematical journals and of the book series “De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics”