Background
Rolf was born on October 31, 1945 in Zurich, Switzerland. Son of Max Julius and Claire Ida (Rossel) Jeltsch.
Rolf was born on October 31, 1945 in Zurich, Switzerland. Son of Max Julius and Claire Ida (Rossel) Jeltsch.
In 1969 Rolf studied at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland at the faculty of Mathematics. In three years he was a student of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland. He became a Doctor of Philosophy in the area of Mathematics. In 2008 he studied at the University of Technology in Helsinki, Finland. He received a Doctoral degree.
Rolf worked as a Killam postdoctoral fellow of the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 1972 to 1973. In this year he became an adjunct assistant, professor of the University of California in Los Angeles, California, United States. From 1975 to 1976 he was an assistant professor of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. In this year he became a lecturer at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. He worked there for three years. In 1977 he was an associate professor of the Ruhr University in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. He worked there until 1979.
From 1979 to 1990 Rolf was a full professor, director of the Institute for Geometry and Practical Mathematics Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen in Germany. In this year he became a full professor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He worked there until 2011. Since February 2011 he works as an emeritus professor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
National Mathematical Centre , Abuja
He was a foreign member.
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
April 15, 2002
Swiss National Funds
1978
American Mathematics Society
Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society
German Mathematics Association
He was a President.
Swiss Mathematics Society
2002 - 2003
He was a President.
Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
2005 - 2007
He was a President.
European Mathematics Society
1999 - 2002
London Mathematics Society
Mathematics Society of France
He is a President.
International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2007
He was a foreign member.
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Rolf married to Marianne Regula Grauer on October 4, 1970. Children: Veronika, Rita, Urs, Claudia.