Curriculum Vitae

1979: Habilitation in Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich
1980-81: C3-Professor at the Technical University of Munich
September 1981 - December 1982: Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the University of Utah and the University of Washington
January - May 1983: Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa
1983-87: Associate Professor / Professor at the University of Iowa
1984-86: C4-Professor and Designated Chair for Algebra at the University of Passau, Germany
January 1987--: Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
1989-90: Visiting Professor at the University of Utah
1990-91: Professor at the University of Utah
January - April 2000: Research Professor at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
September - October 2001: US Representative to Program on Noncommutative Phenomena, Center for Higher Studies, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Oslo
January 2003: Professeur Invite, University of Montpellier II, France
November - December 2003: Invited Researcher, Institute Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm
November - December 2006: Invited Researcher, Program in Discrete and Continuous Methods in Ring Theory, Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona
January - March 2013: Research Professor at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

Research Interests

Representation Theory of Finite Dimensional Algebras
- Homological Aspects
- Geometric Aspects
- Decomposition Theory
Non Finite Dimensional Ring and Module Theory
- Algebraic Compactness
- Pure Semisimple Rings
- Large Direct Products
- Exchange Property for Decompositions
- Equivalence and Duality
Interactions of Algebra and Logic
Abelian Group Theory