Kunisch, Karl, O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. MA
O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. MA Karl Kunisch
+43 316 380 - 5162
Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing
http://mathematik.uni-graz.at/
Karl Kunisch is professor of the department of mathematics at the University of Graz, and Scientific Director of the Radon Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz. He received his PhD and Habilitation at the Technical University of Graz in 1978 and 1980. His research interests include optimization and optimal control, inverse problems and mathematical imaging, numerical analysis and applications, currently focusing on topics in the life sciences.
Prof. Kunisch spent three years at the Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems at Brown University, USA, held visiting positions at INRIA Rocquencourt and the Universite Paris Dauphine, and was a consultant at ICASE, NASA Langley, USA. Before joining the faculty at the University in Graz he was professor of numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin.
Karl Kunisch is the author of two monographs and about 390 papers. He is editor of numerous journals, including SIAM Numerical Analysis and SIAM Optimization and Optimal Control, and the Journal of the European Mathematical Society.
Research Interests
- Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations
- Nonsmooth Optimization in Function Spaces
- Applications of Optimization and Control in the Life Sciences
A more detailed description of concrete research projects can be found on the webpage of the research group on Optimization and Optimal Control.
Active Projects and Postitions:
- ERC-Project OCLOC "From Open to Closed Loop Control"
- Research Group on Optimization and Optimal Control
- Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM)
Scientific director, Group leader "Optimization and Optimal Control" - International Research Training Group IGDK
Academic Honors
- W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize 2021
- SIAM Fellow, 2017.
- European Research Council, Advanced Grant, Horizon2020. 2015.
- Member of the MATHEON Scientific Advisory Board, since 2015.
- Invited Lecture, ICM, Hyderabad, 2010.
- Alwin Walther Medaille, 2008.
- Evaluation board member for numerous DFG programs in Germany and INRIA programs in France.
- SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, 2006.
- Leader of Research Groups „Optimization and Control” at Radon Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, since January 2004.
- Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, 2005-2012.
- Member of Senate of Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, since February 2002.
- Award of Christian Doppler Laboratory Fellowship, April 1992.
- Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, March 1990.
- Max Kade Scholarship 1982/83.
- Fulbright Travel Scholarship in academic years 1979/80, 1985.
- Research Award of Theodor-Körner-Fonds, Vienna, April 1979.
- Pro Scienta-Scholarship 1974–1977.
Editorial Activities
- SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (June 1983–May 1993, since January 2005)
since January 2011 also corresponding editor - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (since March 2007)
- Journal of the European Mathematical Society (since 2014)
- Computing and Visualization in Science (since 2003)
- Walter de Gruyter: Radon Series for Computational and Applied Mathematics (since 2006)
- Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (since 2010)
- Vietnam Journal of Mathematics (since 2011)
- Eurasian Journal of Mathematical and Computer Applications (since 2013)
- Springer: Calcolo (since 2013)
- Springer: PNLDE Subseries in Control (since 2016)
- Journal Optimization Methods and Software (since December 2018)