Researcher, Cores 1 and 2
Mathematics
Phone: 979-845-6393
Email: bangerth@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~bangerth
Wolfgang Bangerth is a researcher in Cores 1 and 2 at the Institute and assistant professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M. Bangerth received his bachelor’s degree in physics in 1995 from the University of Stuttgart, and his master’s degree in physics in 1998 at the University of Heidelberg. In 2002, he was awarded a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Heidelberg.
Bangerth’s post-doctoral work was undertaken at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held a joint position with the Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering (ICES) and the Institute for Geophysics. He has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M since 2005. Bangerth serves as an elected member of the Science Steering Committee for the Center for Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics, an NSF funded center to promote scientific software in geophysics. He is also the principal author and one of the maintainers of the Open Source deal.II (http://www.dealii.org) finite element software package. Some of Bangerth’s current work consists of the numerical solution of inverse problems for partial differential equations, as well as a wide variety of algorithmic and software problems in computational sciences and engineering. His awards include a 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, co-recipient of the 2007 J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, and the Palisades Geophysical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Institute for Geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin.