Education
Joachim von zur Gathen has a Diploma in Mathematik from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, and graduated as Doctor philosophy The title of his Doctor of Philosophy thesis is "Sekantenräume von Kurven".
mathematician computer scientist
Joachim von zur Gathen has a Diploma in Mathematik from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, and graduated as Doctor philosophy The title of his Doctor of Philosophy thesis is "Sekantenräume von Kurven".
His research spans several areas in mathematics and computer science, including computational complexity, cryptography, finite fields, and computer algebra. from Universität Zürich in 1980 under the supervision of Volker Strassen. In 1981 he accepted a position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, eventually becoming a Full Professor. In 1994, he moved to the Department of Mathematics at Universität Paderborn.
Since 2004, he has been a professor at the B-Information Technology and the Department of Computer Science at the Universität Bonn.
He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Birkhäuser (now Springer) journal Computational Complexity. A symposium at B-Information Technology in 2010 was held in honor of his 60th birthday, and a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation was published as a festschrift for the event.
