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Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Oliver Labs Mathematik und Informatik Gebäude E2.4 Universität des Saarlandes D-66123 Saarbrücken GERMANY

I received my Ph.D. (computational algebraic geometry) from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) in 2005 (October). After 6 months as a PostDoc at the RICAM research insitute (Linz, Austria), I moved to Saarbrücken (Germany) where I am now Frank-Olaf Schreyer's assistant. I spent the summer term 2008 as a visiting professor (,,Vertretungs-Professor'') at Erlangen.

Positions

• April 2006 - now: Assistant of Frank-Olaf Schreyer at the university of Saarbrücken (Germany).
• April 2008 - July 2008: Visiting Professor (,,Vertretungs-Professor'') at the math department of the University of Erlangen.
• Oct. 2005 - March 2006: PostDoc at the RICAM (Linz, Austria), in Josef Schicho's working group. Financed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
• July 2001 - October 2005: Ph.D. student of Duco van Straten at the university of Mainz (Germany).

Education

• 2005: Ph.D. in mathematics (summa cum laude), Department of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany). Advisor: Duco van Straten. Title of the Thesis: Hypersurfaces with Many Singularities -- History, Constructions, Algorithms, Visualization.
• 2001: Diploma in mathematics, Department of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany). Advisor: Duco van Straten. Title of the Diploma Thesis: Kubische Fl?chen und Cobles Hexaederform.
• 1997: Ma?trise Math?matiques Pures, Universit? de la Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens (France). I received this degree after my one-year-stay at this university.
• 1996: Vordiplom (equiv. to Bachelor) in mathematics, Department of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany).
• 1994: Started to study mathematics with subsidiary subject business administration at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany).

Scholarships and Grants

• 2006: Research Prize of the University of Mainz for my Ph.D. thesis.
• 2005: Grant (together with Duco van Straten) of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz for E-Learning: Accepted for continuing the previous project (6 months).
• 2004: Grant (together with Duco van Straten) of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz for E-Learning: Supported a programming assistant for 4 months (in order to extend my tool surfex).
• 2000-2001: Scholarship (six months) of the Johannes Gutenberg University for finishing my Diploma thesis.
• 1996/97: ERASMUS scholarship (10 months) for my stay in Amiens (France).

Teaching Experiences

• Independent teaching:
  2008: Dynamic Geometry Lecture (at Erlangen as a visiting professor)
  2008: Algebraic Curves Seminar (at Erlangen as a visiting professor)
  2007/08: Dynamic Geometry Lecture
  2007: Algebraic Topology Lecture
• Since 2006:
  Teaching and Research Assistant of Frank-Olaf Schreyer at the Saarland University (Germany).
  Organized and supervised several tutorial classes for courses taught by Frank-Olaf.
  From 2007 on, I also did some independant teaching starting with a lecture on algebraic topology and followed by one on dynamic geometry.
  See the teaching section for more details.
• 2001-2005:
  Teaching and Research Assistant of Duco van Straten at the University of Mainz (Germany).
  Organized exercise classes and held tutorial lectures in: Linear Algebra I-II, Analysis I, Mathematics for Computer Scientists I-III.
  Organized and held practical sessions in: Computer Algebra for Mathematicians, Computer Algebra for Computer Scientists.
  Co-organized several seminars (with Duco van Straten).
  Co-advised several Diploma and Staatsexamen Theses (with Duco van Straten).
• 2001-2004: Organizer (with D. v. Straten, M. Lehn) of the project ''Mathematik am Mittwoch Mittag'' (MMM): pupils (13-18 years old) came to the university for 3 hours on wednesdays to experience some mathematics.

Jobs and other Activities

• 2001-2006: MONOID: web-editor of the maths journal for pupils.
• 1998-2000: IC-Haus: programming, mainly c and database programming in VisualBasic for MSAccess
• 1999, 2000: i-p-tel.com: mainly CeBIT 1999 and CeBIT 2000
• 1998: One year in the executive board of the local comitee Mainz/Wiesbaden of the student organization AIESEC; responsible for organizing internships for foreigners in the Mainz area.

Hobbies

• Sports: Badminton, Running, Squash, Tennis, ...
• Meeting people.
• Practicing languages.
• Internet & Maths programming.