Anton Wakolbinger

Professor, Institut für Mathematik, Goethe-Universtität Frankfurt

born: August 11, 1955, in Linz, Austria
married with Gertraud, 3 children (Lea, *1981, Benedikt, *1986, Jakob, *1988)

Academic degrees

Diplom-Ingenieur (Mathematik) (1977, Johannes Kepler Universtät Linz )
Magister rerum naturarum (1978, Universität Linz)
Dr. technicae (1980, Universität Linz)

Academic positions

1977-80, 1981/82, 1983/84 Universitätsassistent, Universität Linz, Austria (in the group of P. Weiß)
1980- summer 1981, 1982/83 Assistent/Postdoktorand, Universität Zürich, Switzerland (in the group of M. Nagasawa)
1984-92 Universitätsdozent/Assistenzprofessor, Universität Linz, Austria
since 1992 full professor (C4), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Publications and Preprints

Textbook: G. Kersting und A. Wakolbinger, Elementare Stochastik, Birkhäuser 2008, 2nd ed: 2010.

Recent activities

Deputy speaker of the newly established DFG Priority Programme 'Probabilistic Structures in Evolution' (SPP 1590)

Project leader

- in the bilateral (DFG-NWO) research group "Mathematics of Random Spatial Models from Physics and Biology" (Project: Populations with self-regulated production and reproduction, 2003-2009)

and previously

- in the DFG-Schwerpunkt (special program of the German research council)
"Interacting stochastic systems of high complexity" with the research projects:

• Branching populations: Genealogical trees and spatial longtime behavior (with G. Kersting, Frankfurt), 1997-2003
• Stochastic aspects in sequence alignment and phylogeny estimation (with A. v. Haeseler, Düsseldorf, and G.Kersting, Frankfurt), 1999-2003

From 2002-2004 I was the secretary, and from 2004-2006 I was the chairman of the managing committee of the "Fachgruppe Stochastik der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung". From 2005-2009 I was member of the Council of the Bernoulli Society.

Memberships

• German Mathematical Society (DMV)
• DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik
• Austrian Mathematical Society (ÖMG)
• Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistcs and Probability
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
• American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Deputy member of the Academic Senate of Frankfurt University (since 2001)

Editorial work

Associate Editor of Electronic Journal of Probability/ Electronic Communications in Probability (since 2004)
Member of the Advisory Board, Monatshefte für Mathematik (since 2002)
Member of the Editorial Board, Mathematische Nachrichten (1998-2007)

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