Marlis Hochbruck

Marlis Hochbruck (born 12 June 1964)[1] is a German applied mathematician and numerical analyst known for her research on matrix exponentials, exponential integrators, and their applications to the numerical solution of differential equations.

[2] Hochbruck went to high school in Krefeld, and studied Technomathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1989.

[1] Her dissertation, Lanczos und Krylov-Verfahren für nicht-Hermitesche lineare Systeme, was jointly supervised by Wilhelm Niethammer and Michael Eiermann.

She obtained her first professorship in 1998, in applied mathematics at the University of Düsseldorf, declining two offers of professorships at other German universities in the same year.

[1] As well as holding her professorship at Karlsruhe, she has been a vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 2014.