Curriculum Vitae:

Education

• Habilitation in Computer Science, University of Hagen, Germany, 2003, with a thesis on “Computability on Asymmetric Spaces”.
• PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science with “summa cum laude”, University of Hagen, Germany, 1999, with a thesis on “Recursive and computable operations over topological structures”, supervised by Klaus Weihrauch.
• Diploma in Computer Science with Mathematics as secondary subject “with distinction”, University of Hagen, Germany, 1993.
• Additional studies of Mathematics, Philosophy and Psychology at the universities of Hagen and Bonn, Germany from 1989 until 1993.

Employment

• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa since July 2004.
• Assistant in Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Hagen from 1999 until June 2004 (without teaching load as DFG Research Fellow from 2000 until 2002).
• Scientific Associate in Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Hagen from 1993 until 1999.

Main Research Interests:

• computable analysis (the Turing machine based theory of computability and complexity on real numbers, subsets and functions)
• topological data structures
• quantum computing
• neural networks
• computable economics