Background
Gathen, Joachim von zur was born on February 14, 1950 in Solingen, Germany.
Gathen, Joachim von zur was born on February 14, 1950 in Solingen, Germany.
Diploma, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University Zürich, 1980.
Professor University Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1981-1994, University Paderborn, Germany, 1994—2004, BIT and University Bonn, since 2004. Visiting professor University Zürich, 1984-1985, University Catolica, Santiago, Chile, 1988, Australian National University, Canberra, 1989, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 1993, Macquarie University, Sydney, 1997, 2002, 2003, University Waterloo, Canada, 2002, University Republican Montevideo, Uruguay, 2006, 2007. Visiting researcher International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, 1996.
Consultant International Business Machines Corporation Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1986, University Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, 2000.
Member Association Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Symbolic and Algebraic Maniputation, Special Interest Group for Automata and Computation Theory.
Married Dorothea von zur Gathen. Children: Rafaela, Désiréest.