Scientific Curriculum

Bruno P. Zimmermann

date of birth              September 24,    1950

place of birth             Werl,    Germany

citizenship                 german

civil state                  married,   five children

position                    full  professor,  University of Trieste

working fields           mathematics,  algebra and geometry, 

                               geometric and algebraic topology,  low-dimensional topology,

                               geometric group theory

School and University

1969                      maturity  (Abitur)

1969 – 1974          student of mathematics and physics,   Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum  (Germany)

May 1974              diplom in mathematics

1974 – 1975          University of Wisconsin,   Madison  (USA)

1975 -  1977          Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum

June 1977               PhD in mathematics    (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum) 

Positions

1977 – 1978         member of the Sonderforschungsbereich Reine Mathematik,    University of Bonn

1978 – 1983        assistant,    Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum 

January 1983        Habilitation     (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum) 

1983 – 1984        visiting professor,   University of Michigan,  Ann Arbor  (USA)

1984 – 1987        lecturer  (Dozent),   Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum 

1986                    winner of the concorso nazionale  per professori ordinari di algebra

april 1987             full professor of mathematics  (cattedra di algebra, since 1990 di geometry),   
                            University of Trieste

2000 – 2002        President of the Corso di Laurea in Mathematics,   University of Trieste

2005-2007           Director of the mathematical journal  Rendiconti dell’ Istituto di Matematica dell’Università
                            di  Trieste

PhD Students

Gerhard  Krause                Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum  1983
Johannes  Tipp                   Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum   1989
Marco Reni                        Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati  (SISSA),   Trieste      1991 
Monique Gradolato            Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati  (SISSA),    Trieste      1993
Luisa Paoluzzi                     Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati  (SISSA),    Trieste      1997    

Mattia Mecchia                  Università di Padova    2001