Curriculum vitae
Personal data
| Name: | Norbert Hungerbühler |
| Date of birth: | April 25, 1964 in Flawil (Switzerland) |
| Citizenship: | Swiss |
| Marital status: | married |
| Children: | Jonathan, Nina |
Education
- Habilitation
Fall 2000, Mathematics Department, ETH Zürich
Thesis: Young measures and nonlinear PDEs
- Ph.D. (Dr. sc. math.)
Summer 1994, Mathematics Department, ETH Zürich
Examiner: Michael Struwe, Co-Examiner: Jürgen Moser
Thesis: p-harmonic flow
- M.Sc. (Dipl. Math.)
Fall 1989, Mathematics Department, ETH Zürich
Advisor: Christian Blatter
Thesis: Computer Tomography
- M.Ed. (Höheres Lehramt)
Winter 1989, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, ETH Zürich
Advisors: Hardi Fischer, Gerhard Huber
- Matura (mathematical-scientific type)
Fall 1984, Kantonsschule Burggraben St.Gallen, Switzerland
Professional Experience
- Assistant
Fall 1989 to Fall 1994
Mathematics Department, ETH Zürich
- Assistant
October 1994 to December 1994
Mathematics Institute (chair of Stefan Müller), University of Freiburg (Germany)
- SNF Research position
January 1995 to July 1995
Mathematics Institute, University of Freiburg (Germany)
- SNF Research position
August 1995 to December 1995
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Postdoc
January 1996 to December 1996
Mathematics Department, ETH Zürich
- Senior Assistant
January 1997 to August 1998
Mathematics Department, ETH Zürich
- Research position
September 1998 to August 1999
Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (Germany)
- Assistant Professor
September 1999 to September 2000
Mathematics Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Full Professor
October 2000 to July 2010
Mathematics Department, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
- Full Professor
Since August 1, 2010
Mathematics Department, ETH Zürich
Presidences and Committees
- President of the Department, University of Fribourg
2003 and 2007
- Secretary of the Swiss Mathematical Society
2003
- Vice President of the Swiss Mathematical Society
2004-2005
- Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg
2005
- President of the Swiss Mathematical Society
2006-2007
- Founding Director of the Swiss Doctoral Program in Mathematics
2006-2010
- Président du Troisième cycle romand de mathématiques
2008-2010
- Founding Librarian of the Swiss Digital Mathematics Library
since 2005
- Vice president of the Stiftung zur Förderung der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in der Schweiz
since 2011
Languages
German (native), French and English (both fluent)
Other activities
- Reviewer for MathSciNet
For Partial differential
equations, Geometry, Calculus of variations and optimal control,
Global analysis, Analysis on manifolds, Combinatorics, Number theory
- Refereeing
For Math. Z., Comment. Math. Helv.,
Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations,
Z. Angew. Math. Phys., Discrete Math., Duke Math. J.,
SIAM J. Math. Anal., Integers and others
- Social work
Work with physically or mentally handicapped children:
- for the handicapped Scouts in St. Gallen
- for the Swiss Society for Muscle dystrophy (SGMK)
- Swiss army
Regular military services 1985-2003
Awards
- Gymnasium: Award for best final grades ever
- ETH Zürich: Award for Diploma thesis and final grades
