!!Peter Paule - Short curriculum vitae \\ __Education__ \\ *1976: High School Diploma (Matura; with distinction) *1976-1983: Studies in mathematics, University of Vienna; Dr.phil. (Ph.D.) *1983 (with distinction); thesis in the field of combinatorics and q-series (title: "Zwei neue Transformationen als elementare Anwendungen der q-Vandermonde Formel", advisor: Prof. Johann Cigler) Visiting professorships: (fall 1998) at the University Marne-la-Vallee, Paris, France *(spring 1999) at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa *(summer 2001) at the Pennsylvania State University, USA *(fall 2002, as "ORCCA chair") at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada *(winter 2003) at the Pennsylvania State University, USA \\ __Positions__ \\ *Since Oct 2009: Director of RISC *Since Oct 2008: Director of the Doctoral Program Computational Mathematics at the JKU *Since March 2005: Full professor (successor of Bruno Buchberger) at RISC *2003-2008: Director of the FWF Special Research Program SFB F013 Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing at the JKU *1996-2004: Associate professor at RISC *1996: Habilitation for mathematics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz *1990-1996: Assistant professor at RISC *1986-1988: PostDoc at RISC *1984-1986: Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth working with Prof. Adalbert Kerber *1983: Ph.D. (Dr.phil.) with distinction at the University of Vienna. Thesis title: "Zwei neue Transformationen als elementare Anwendungen der q-Vandermonde Formel" advised by Prof. Johann Cigler \\ __Research projects:__ \\ * "Computer Algebra Algorithms for q-Series and Combinatorial Identities"; FWF; 1989-93 * "Symbolic Computation and Combinatorial Sums", EU Programme "HCM; 1993-1995 * "Symbolic Summation and Combinatorial Identities"; FWF; 1998-2001 and 2001-2004 * "Symbolic Summation in Difference Fields"; FWF; 2003-2007 * "A Special Function Tool-Box for High-Order Finite Element Methods" FWF; 2004-2008 * "Proving and Solving in Special Function Domains"; FWF; 2004-2008 * "Symbolic Integration and Special Functions"; FWF; 2008-2010 * "Computer Algebra Tools for Special Functions in Numerical Analysis", FWF; 2008-2011 \\ __Research visits:__ \\ *Winter 2003: Visiting professor (1 month) at Pennsylvania State University *Fall 2002: Visiting professor (1 month, as ORCCA chair) at the University of Waterloo, Canada *Summer 2001: Visiting professor (1 month) at Pennsylvania State University, USA *Spring 1999: Visiting professor (1 month) at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa *Fall 1998: Visiting professor (1 month) at Université Marne-la-Vallée, Paris \\ __Various activities:__ \\ *Since 2008: Editorial Board Member of The Ramanujan Journal *Since 2000: Managing editor, with G.E. Andrews and W.Y. Chen, of the Annals of Combinatorics *Since 1996: Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Symbolic Computation *Since 2006: Editor of two special RISC Book Series with Springer Heidelberg and Springer Vienna *Since 1998: Associate Editor for the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) *Organizer of FPSAC'09, Hagenberg, Austria, July 2009 *Program Chair of ISSAC'05, Beijing, July 2005 *Co-organizer of the Conference Special Functions in the Digital Age at IMA, Minneapolis, July 2002 *Organizer of a mini-symposium on Computer Algebra and Combinatorics at the 10th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, IMA, Minneapolis, June 2000 *Program Chair, with V. Strehl, of FPSAC'97, Vienna, July 1997 *Organizer, with V. Strehl, of the workshop Symbolic Computation in Combinatorics at MSI, Cornell University, September 1993 \\ __Program Committee member for:__ \\ *FPSAC'08 (Valparaiso, Chile, June 2008) *MAP'07 (Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, January 2007) *MAP'06 (Castro-Urdiales, Spain, 2006) *FPSAC'99 (Barcelona, Spain, 1999) *ISSAC'99 (Vancouver, Canada, 1999) *42nd SLC (Maratea, Italy, 1998) *ISSAC'97 (Hawaii, USA, 1997) *Computer Algebra Workshop, GI Conference (Klagenfurt, Austria, 1996) *FPSAC'96 (Minneapolis, USA, 1996) \\ *Reviewer for numerous scientific journals, conferences and research projects including Mathematical Reviews. *Member of the mathematical societies ACM, AMS, ÖMG and SIAM.