Who I am

Since a home page is supposed to give some information about the person or organization who or which writes it, let's start with some pretty impersonal information about me.

I am an assistant professor of mathematics at Sonoma State University. I just started this position in Fall 2002. Before, I was a teaching post-doc in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona for three years. I received my Ph.D from the Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins Colorado in the summer of 1999. My dissertation advisor was Professor Rick Miranda, the title of my dissertation is "Karhunen-Loeve Decomposition in the presence of symmetry". If you would like to learn a little more about my education, degrees or whatever might interest you if you want to hire me, feel free to have a look at my RESUME.

Where I am from

If you could hear me talk, you would notice after the first sentence that I am not American but German. I grew up in a small town named Alme. It is one of those nice little towns in the rural Sauerland. After I got my Abitur (=Highschool Diploma), I started studying mathematics at the Philipps-Universitaet Marburg.