General
| Name | Matthias Ehrhardt |
| Birthplace | Berlin |
| Citizenship | German |
| Family Status | married, 2 children (*2003, *2005) |
Education
| 07/1995 | Diploma of Technomathematics at the Technical University Berlin,
final grades: 1.05 with distinction, Title of Diploma thesis Finite Differenzenverfahren für hyperbolische Systeme mit absorbierenden Randbedingungen (in german) |
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| 05/2001 | PhD thesis Discrete Artificial Boundary Conditions, Final grades: 1.0 with distinction | ||
| 11/2006 | Habilitation at Department of Mathematics, TU Berlin, Topic Numerical Treatment of PDEs on unbounded Domains | ||
| 01/2007 | Venia Legendi at Department of Mathematics, TU Berlin | ||
| 07/2009 | Offer of a full Professorship Numerical Mathematics, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany (realized) |
Employment
| 09/1991 | - | 08/1995 | Tutor at the Technical University of Berlin |
| 09/1995 | - | 01/1999 | Research Position funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) |
| 02/1999 | - | 03/1999 | TMR-Predoc at the University of Granada (Spain) |
| 04/1999 | - | 09/1999 | Research Position funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) |
| 02/2000 | - | 03/2000 | TMR-scholarship at the University of Granada (Spain) |
| 10/1999 | - | 10/2002 | Assistant in the Applied Mathematics Group at the Saarland University (Lecturer 10/2001-10/2002) |
| 11/2002 | - | 05/2006 | Head of Junior Research Group Applied Analysis im DFG-Center Matheon Mathematics for Key Technologies at TU Berlin |
| 06/2006 | - | 02/2008 | Post-Doc at TU Berlin (since 02/2007 associate professor), since April 2007 Junior Faculty Member of the Berlin Mathematical School |
| 09 | / | 2007 | Guest Professor Equipe Simpaf - INRIA FUTURS, Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, LUFR de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees,Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France |
| 01 | / | 2008 | Guest Lecturer Master's program in Financial Mathematics (Numerical Methods), Halmstad University, Sweden. |
| 03/2008 | - | 09/2009 | Researcher at WIAS Berlin, LG1-Project: Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Fuel Cells in the PAKT-Research Network of the Leibniz Association |
| 09 | / | 2008 | Guest Professor Project-Team SIMPAF INRIA, Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, LUFR de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France |
| 11 | / | 2008 | Guest Lecturer Master's program in Financial Mathematics (Numerical Methods), Halmstad University, Sweden. |
| 11 | / | 2009 | Guest Lecturer Master's program in Financial Mathematics (Numerical Methods), Halmstad University, Sweden. |
| since | 10/2009 | Full Professor (W2) 'Numerical Mathematics', Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. | |
| 11 | / | 2010 | Guest Lecturer Master's program in Financial Mathematics (Numerical Methods), Halmstad University, Sweden. |
Project Experience
- Coordinator of Marie Curie Multi-ITN STRIKE Novel Methods in Computational Finance (2013-2017)
- Leader of 2 DFG-, 2 BMBF- und 5 DAAD-Projects
- Co-Lead ERASMUS Mundus Joint Masters Programme MATHS-DISC Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Data Science for Industrial and Societal Challenges (since 2024)
Publications
- 9 Books, 16 Special Issues, 24 Book Chapters, 137 Articles in peer-reviewed Journals, 40 Articles in Proceedings
Scientific Supervision
- 18 interdisciplinary Ph.D. Theses, 43 Diploma/Master Theses, 22 Bachelor Theses, 2 international Internships, 1 Student Research Project
- 19 Master Theses in the Master's program in Financial Mathematics (Numerical Methods), Halmstad University, Sweden.
Academic Self-Government
- Member of the Commission for Research, Third-Party Funding and Graduate Funding (K II) (2018-2026)
- Member of the Executive Board of EU-MATHS-IN (2022- ), since Nov. 2023 vice-president
- Member of the Council of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) (2020- )
- Member of the Research and Innovation Committee (RIC) of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) (2018- )
- Member of the Educational Committee (EC) of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) (2019- )
- Member of the External Policy Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) (2026- )
- Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) (2021- )
- Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analytics (IZMD) Deputy Speaker (Nov 2022- )
- ERASMUS Coordinator of the Department of Mathematics (2012 -)
- IMACM Board Member (2011 - )
- Coordinator of the Mathematical Colloquium and the IMACM Talks (2013-)
- Appointments Officer of Faculty 4 (2021- )
- Member of the PROMOS Selection Committee (2022-)
- Coordinator of the Job Talks (2023- )
- Board Member of BUW Activity Field 4 "AI4EF - AI for Empowering the Future" (2024-)
Memberships
- German Association of University Professors and Lecturers
- KoMSO (Committee for Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Optimization)
- IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation)
Organisational Activities
- Editor of E-Book Series Progress in Computational Physics (PiCP), Vol. 1 published 2010, Vol. 2 published 2012, Vol. 3 published 2013.
- Member of Editorial Boards:
- Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (AAMM) (funding member, 2008 -)
- Applied Mathematical Finance (AMF) (Guesteditor 2018-19)
- Applied Numerical Mathematics (APNUM) (2018 -)
- Computer Physics Communications (CPC) (2009-2015)
- International Journal of Computer Mathematics (IJCM) (Section B - Computational Methods) (2009 -)
- Journal of Inequalities & Applications (2020 -)
- Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications (NM-TMA) (2008 -)
- SeMA Journal Bulletin of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (2020 -)
- Waves, Wavelets and Fractals (WWFAA) (funding member -2019)
- Journal of Computational Science (JOCS) (Managing Guest Editor, 2018-2019)
- Journal of Mathematics in Industry (JMII) (Managing Guest Editor, 2020-2022)
- Referee for more than 150 Journals:
- External Referee for 20 Research fonds and 5 Publishers
- REA - European Commission (Research Executive Agency, PEOPLE)
- ANR French National Research Agency
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
- DFG (German Research Foundation)
- Baden-Württemberg Foundation (international cutting-edge research)
- ANID National Research and Development Agency, Chile (Panel Engineering)
- Expert Panel of the Estonian Research Council (ETAg)
- 2024: Chair of the Expert Panel of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Informatics
- Academy of Finland (Applied Mathematics Review Panel)
- Research Excellence Council of Hungary
- ISF (Israel Science Foundation)
- INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, Program Associate Teams)
- SFI Science Foundation Ireland (Mathematics Panel)
- NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- BSF (United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation)
- UEFISCDI (Romanian Research Community)
- RSF (Russian Science Foundation)
- NRF South Africa's National Research Foundation
- VEGA (Slovakian Scientific Grant Agency)
- Vetenskapsrådet - Swedish Research Community (Evaluation Panel for Mathematics & Engineering Mathematics)
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities (JESH) )
- FWF - Austrian Fonds to Support Scientific Research
- CERG (Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Hong Kong, China
- BeIPD-Marie Curie COFUND programme 2013-2018 University of Liège (ULg)
- Research Council KU Leuven
- UK Metascience Unit
- Publisher Bentham Science Publishers
- Publisher Risk Books
- Publisher Springer (Mathematics)
- Publisher Wiley-VCH (Editorial Office for Physics)
- Publisher WorldScientific (Mathematics)
- Jury member "STEM-friendly school"
- External Referee for 18 Dissertations
- Aslam Aly El Faidal Saib, University of Mauritius (2010)
- José-Ramón Pintos, UP Valencia (2011)
- Tomas Bokes, Comenius University Bratislava (2011)
- Pavol Kutik, TU Bratislava (2013)
- Michael M. Tung, UP Valencia (2013)
- Ynte Vanderhoydonc, U Antwerp (2014)
- Radoslav Valkov, U Antwerp (2016)
- José Lopez-Salas, U A Coruña (2016)
- Qian Feng, TU Delft (2017)
- Maria Kazakova U Toulouse (2018), Thesis
- Omishwary Bhatoo, University of Technology, Mauritius (2019)
- Mikhail Lytaev, U St. Petersburg (2019)
- Andreas Buchheit, U Saarbrücken (2021)
- Onkar Jadhav, TU Berlin (2022)
- Anieza Maltsi, HU Berlin (2022)
- Kevin Kamm, U Bologna (2023)
- Archna Kumari, Longowal (Punjab) (2023)
- Federica Bragone, KTH Stockholm (2023, opponent, +2025)
- Benjamin Uhrich , University of Leipzig (2026)
- Lasse Ermoneit , TU Berlin (2026)
- Pride Duve , U Hamburg (2026)
- (External) Referee for 6 Habilitations
- Roland Pulch, Wuppertal (2011)
- Jing Rebecca Li, University of Paris Sud, Orsay (2013)
- Beáta Stehlíková, Comenius University Bratislava (2014)
- Andreas Bartel, Wuppertal, (2018)
- Sona Kilianová, Comenius University Bratislava (2019)
- Benjamin Boutin, Université Rennes (2023)
- Désiré Yannick Tangman, University of Mauritius (2024) (promotion to Professor)
- Consulting
- Consulter for car company IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr, Berlin
- Consulter for Research Network Nonlinear PDEs and stochastic models arising in financial mathematics - existence results, numerical solutions and applications (FCT - Foundation for Research in Portugal)
- Organiser
- Minisymposium Artificial Boundary Conditions for linear and nonlinear Schrödinger equations in the framework of 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, July 16-20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 1. Workshop of the Research Network Coupled transport processes in energy and environmental research, April 21, 2008, WIAS Berlin.
- 2. Workshop of the Research Network Coupled transport processes in energy and environmental research, January 23, 2009, WIAS Berlin.
- International Workshop Coupled Models in Energy, Hydrological and Climate Research, October 8-9, 2009, WIAS Berlin.
- International Conference
The 16-th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry,
July 26-30, 2010, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
- Special Focus Computational Finance in Energy Markets
- Minisymposium Nonlinear Black-Scholes Equations
- Minisymposium Computational Finance in the framework of ALGORITMY 2012 - Conference on Scientific Computing, September 9-14, 2012, Vysoke Tatry, Podbanske, Slovakia.
- Minisymposium Advanced Topics in Lattice Boltzmann Methods in the framework of SciCADE 2013 - International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations, September 16-20, 2013 at University of Valladolid, Spain.
- Minisymposium Computational Finance (16 Speakers) and Mathematical Modelling in Energy Markets (8 Speakers) in the framework of ECMI 2014 Conference, European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, June 9-13, 2014 at Taormina, Italy.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets in the framework of ECMI 2016 Conference, European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, June 13-17, 2016, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Minisymposium Recent trends in the analysis and computations of nonlinear partial differential equations and systems, in the framework of CMMSE2017 - XVII International Conference Computational & Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, July 4-8, 2017, Rota, Spain,
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, ICCF 2017 Conference, 2nd International Conference on Computational Finance, September 4-8, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Lorentz Center Workshop Applied Mathematics Techniques for Energy Markets in Transition, September 18-22, 2017 Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Minisymposium Novel Methods in Computational Finance in the framework of Seventh Conference on Finite Difference Methods: Theory and Applications, June 11-16, 2018, Lozenetz, Bulgaria.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets (12 Speakers) in the framework of ECMI 2018 Conference Budapest, June 18-22, 2018, Budapest, Hungary.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, ICCF 2019 Conference, 3rd International Conference on Computational Finance, July 8-12, 2019, A Coruña, Spanien.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets in the framework of ALGORITMY 2020 - Conference on Scientific Computing, September 10-15, 2020, Vysoke Tatry, Podbanske, Slovakia.
- Organisator and Scientific Committee ECMI 2021 virtual Conference (hosted by Wuppertal), April 13-15 April 2021.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets in the framework of ECMI 2021 virtual Conference (hosted by Wuppertal), April 13-15, 2021.
- Organisator and Scientific Committee ICCF 2021 Conference, 4th International Conference on Computational Finance, June 6-10, 2022, Wuppertal, Germany.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, ICCF 2021 Conference, 4th International Conference on Computational Finance, June 6-10, 2022, Wuppertal, Germany.
- Minisymposium Port-Hamiltonian Systems, MATHMOD 2022 - 10th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, July 27-29, 2022, Vienna, Austria.
- Minisymposium EU-MATHS-IN: Success Stories of Mathematical Technologies in Societal Challenges and Industry, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), February 26 - March 3, 2023, RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Scientific Committee 22nd ECMI Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Wrocław, Poland, June 26-30, 2023.
- Minisymposia
- Analysis and Numerics of port-Hamiltonian systems, with Björn Liljegren-Sailer (Trier)
- Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, with Rafał Weron (Wrocław)
- EU-MATHS-IN: Success Stories of Mathematical Technologies in Societal Challenges and Industry, with Manuel Cruz (Porto)
- Scientific Committee IMACS World Congress, September 19-22, 2023, Rome, Italy.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, with Daniel Sevcovic (Bratislava), in the framework of ALGORITMY 2024 - Conference on Scientific Computing, March 10-15, 2024, Vysoke Tatry, Podbanske, Slovakia.
- Scientific Committee ICCF 2024 Conference, 5th International Conference on Computational Finance, April 2-5, 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, with Rafał Weron (Wrocław), in the framework of ICCF 2024 Conference, 5th International Conference on Computational Finance, April 2-5, 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Scientific Committee MSML24 Conference, Mathematical Scientific Machine Learning, June 17-21, 2024, Rome, Italy.
- Program Committee AIGC 2024 - The 2nd International Conference on AI-generated Content, December 21-22, 2024, Beijing, China.
- Minisymposium EU-MATHS-IN -- Mathematics for Innovation: Succes Stories & Support for European Industries, with Manuel Cruz (Porto), Math 2 Product (M2P), Polytechnical University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, June 4-6, 2025.
- Minisymposium Machine Learning Enhanced Numerical Schemes in Underwater Acoustics, with Pavel Petrov (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro) (UACE 25), Porto Carras Grand Resort Meliton, Halidiki, Greece, June 15-20, 2025.
- Scientific Committee and Plenary Speaker SCF2025: Stochastics and Computational Finance 2025 - new trends from Academia to Real-World Applications, September 2-5, 2025, ISEG Lisbon, Portugal.
- Minisymposia
- Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, with Daniel Sevcovic (Bratislava) and Carlos Vázquez Cendon (A Coruña)
- Advanced Pricing Models and Numerical Approaches for Emission Allowances and Renewable Energy Certificates, with Jean-François Chassagneux (Paris) and Carlos Vázquez Cendon (A Coruña)
- Scientific Committee KLAIM 2025, Kaiserslautern Applied and Industrial Mathematics Days, October 6-8, 2025, Kaiserslautern, Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany.
- Minisymposium EU-MATHS-IN - Mathematics for Innovation: Succes Stories & Support for European Industries, with Manuel Cruz (Porto) KLAIM 2025, October 6-8, 2025, Kaiserslautern, Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany.
- Session ERE5.7 - Machine Learning and Physics‑Informed Modeling for Geotechnical and Subsurface Applications (Convener: Reza Taherdangkoo, Co-conveners: Thomas Nagel, Matthias Ehrhardt), European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, May 3-8, 2026.
- Scientific Committee 23rd ECMI Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Kaunas, Lithuania, June 29 - July 3, 2026.
- Minisymposia
- Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, with Rafał Weron (Wrocław)
- EU-MATHS-IN: Success Stories of Mathematical Technologies in Societal Challenges and Industry, with Manuel Cruz (Porto)
- Minisymposium EU-MATHS-IN: Success Stories of Mathematical Technologies in Societal Challenges and Industry, with Manuel Cruz (Porto), WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026, July 19-24, 2026, Munich, Germany.
- Scientific Committee ICCF 2026 - International Conference on Computational Finance, September 1-4, 2026, University of Oxford, UK.
- Minisymposium Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets, with Rafał Weron (Wrocław), ICCF 2026 - International Conference on Computational Finance, September 1-4, 2026, University of Oxford, UK.
- Minisymposium EU-MATHS-IN -- Mathematics for Innovation: Succes Stories & Support for European Industries, with Manuel Cruz (Porto), Math 2 Product (M2P), Terrasini (Palermo), Italy, May 25-28, 2027.
- Minisymposium EU-MATHS-IN: Success Stories of Mathematical Technologies in Societal Challenges and Industry, with Manuel Cruz (Porto), ICIAM 2027, July 12-16, 2027, The Hague, The Netherlands.
- Organisator and Scientific Committee ECMI Modelling Week 2027, July 18 - 24, 2027, Wuppertal, Germany.
Awards
- Weltlöwe 2012: Award for outstanding commitment of university teachers for the internationalization of the University of Wuppertal in teaching and learning
- Mathemacher der Monate März und April 2022: Award of Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)
Honorary Posts
- STEM Ambassador (2021-)
- Mentor of Initiative Little Scientist's House (Project of Helmholtz association since 2006 that encourages the enthusiasm of 3 to 6 year-old children in natural science and technological phenomena through play.)
- Acting Manager of a small childcare centre in Berlin (August 2006 - March 2011)