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• 27. February 1967: Born in Caransebes, Romania
• Education and Degrees:
  
  
• 05/2003: Habilitation in Mathematics and Privat Dozent, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany.
  Thesis: [.pdf , ] Function spaces of generalised smoothness and pseudo-differential operators associated to a continuous negative definite function
  Thesis referees: Prof. Dr. Heinz Siedentop, Prof. Dr. David Edmunds, Prof. Dr. Michael Solomyak
  
  
• 07/1998: PhD in Mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.), Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany.
  Summa cum laude. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Triebel
  Thesis:[.pdf] Anisotropic function spaces, fractals, and spectra of some elliptic and semi-elliptic differential operators
  Thesis referees: Prof. Dr. Hans Triebel, Prof. Dr. Winfried Sickel, Prof. Dr. Walter Trebels
  
  
• 1989 - 1990: Advanced Studies in Mathematical Analysis and Operator Theory, Department of Mathematics, University of Bucharest
  06/1990: Master of Advanced Studies in Mathematics, University of Bucharest
  Maximum possible overall marks 10.0/10.0
  
  
• 1985 - 1989: Studies in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Bucharest
  06/1989: Diploma in Mathematics, University of Bucharest
  Graduated with maximum possible overall marks 10.0/10.0
  
  
• 1973 - 1985: Normal School and Mathematical - Physics High School, Caransebes, Romania
  06/1985: Matura (A-levels in Mathematics, Physics, Romanian Literature and Practice)
  


• Employment:


• since 02/2009: Professor for Quantitative Finance,
  Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich
  and Associate Professor at
  Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
  
  
• 10/2003 - 01/2009: Scientific Senior Manager (wissenschaftlicher Abteilungsleiter)
  Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich
  and Reader for Mathematics,
  Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
  
  
• 10/2000 - 09/2003: Research and Teaching Assistant (post-doc)
  Department of Mathematics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. Chair: Prof. Dr. Heinz Siedentop
  
  
• 05/2000 - 09/2000: Research and Teaching Assistant (post-doc)
  Department of Mathematics, University of Regensburg, Germany. Chair: Prof. Dr. Heinz Siedentop
  
  
• 08/1998 - 04/2000: Research Associate (post-doc), Project of The German Union for Research (DFG)
  Institute for theoretical Informatics and Mathematics, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany.
  Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Niels Jacob
  
  
• 11/1995 - 07/1998: PhD Research fellow of The German Union for Research (DFG)
  Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
  
  
• 08/1994 - 10/1995: Research and Teaching Assistant (pre-doc)
  Department of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania
  
  
• 10/1993 - 07/1994: Research Fellow of The German Office for Academical Exchanges (DAAD)
  Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany
  
  
• 09/1990 - 10/1993: Research and Teaching Assistant (pre-doc)
  Department of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania