Group: Number Theory and Representation Theory
Office: A6-202
Email: preda@bimsa.cn
Research Field: Number Theory
Biography
He studied mathematics and computer science in Zürich, receiving a PhD from ETH Zürich in 1997. His PhD thesis, titled Cyclotomy of rings and primality testing, was written under the direction of Erwin Engeler and Hendrik Lenstra. After his first studies, during close to 20 years, he worked in Zürich in the industry, first as a numerical analyst, then as a developer and consultant in IT-Security: cryptogrphy and fingerprint-identification. After 2000, during five years, he did research at the University of Paderborn, Germany, where he proved the long standing 'Conjecture of Catalan', in 2002. In 2005 he received a Wolkswagen Foundation professorship at the University of Göttingen, where he has been a professor ever since.
During the last decade he specialized in abelian Iwasawa Theory and developed new methods for the investigation of open problems in the domain.
Education Experience
- 1985 - 1987 ETH-Zürich Mathematics Ph.D (Supervisor: Engeler and H.W.Lenstra Jr.)
- 1982 - 1987 ETH-Zürich Computer Science Master (Supervisor: Waldvogel)
- 1975 - 1980 ETH-Zürich Mathematics Master (Supervisor: Specker)
Work Experience
- 2024 - Göttingen, BIMSA etc Actively retired
- 2008 - 2024 University Göttingen Professor
- 2005 - 2008 University Göttingen Volkswagen Research Professor
- 2002 - 2005 University Paderborn Professor
- 2020 - 2002 University Paderborn BatIIa Scientific something
- 1998 - 2000 Finger PIN Chief architect and developer
- 1996 - 1997 R3 Security Consultant and developer
- 1992 - 1995 UBS Cryptography Officer
- 1989 - 1992 Telekurs System Analyst
Honors and Awards
- 2005 Volkswagen Foundation Prize and Research chair for the following three years
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