Prof. Dr. Joachim von zur Gathen
Professor - Head of the CoSec group
- Address:
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b-it (Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology)
Dahlmannstr. 2
D-53113 Bonn
Germany
- Room:
- b-it 1.27
- Phone:
- +49/228/2699-223
- FAX:
- +49/228/2699-241
- Email:
Joachim von zur Gathen has a Diplom in Mathematik from ETH Zürich, and graduated as Dr. phil. from Universität Zürich in 1980. He took up in 1981 a postdoc 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-IT and the Department of Computer Science at the Universität Bonn.
His research interests, past and present, include algebraic complexity theory, parallel computation, finite fields, computer algebra, and cryptography.