Curriculum Vitae
| Personal dates | |
|---|---|
| Name | Wolfgang Lück |
| Date of birth | 19.02.1957 |
| Place of birth | Herford |
| Parents | Wilfried Lück (born on 04.10.1924 in Herford, deceased on 20.08.2007, profession: pharmacist) Liese-Lotte Lück, nee Becker (born on 12.03.1924 in Herford, deceased on 02.05.2016, profession: housewife) |
| Wife | Sibylle Lück, nee Schrage (born on 09.09.1957 in Siegen, profession: physiotherapist, marriage on 13.04.1984) |
| children | Christian Lück (born on 13.04.1986 in Aarhus, Dänemark) Isabel Lück (born on 02.12.1987 in Göttingen) Tobias Lück (born on 19.09.1991 in Lexington, U.S.A.) Severina Lück (born on 26.12.1997 in Münster) |
| grandchildren | Nora Lück (born on 18.09.2015 in Bonn) Julian Lück (born on 16.10.2018 in Bonn) Tabea Lück (born on 03.12.2023 in Bonn) Ede Lück Düsedau (born on 05.08.2024 in Hamburg) Namika Lück (born on 17.03.2026 in Cologne) |
| Education and positions | |
| April 1963 - November 1966 | Diebrocker Volksschule in Herford |
| December 1966 - June 1975 | Ravensberger Gymnasium in Herford |
| 02.06.1975 | Abitur |
| 02.10.1975 | Enrollment at the Georg August-University at Göttingen (Mathematics and physics) |
| 28.10.1977 | Vordiplom |
| 01.10.1979 - 31.01.1981 | Civil service at the University Clinic in Göttingen (nuclear medicine) |
| 04.11.1981 | Diplom (mit ``Auszeichnung'') |
| 10.02.1984 | Promotion (mit ``Auszeichnung'') |
| 01.04.1982 - 31.07.1985 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Mathematical Institute of the Georg August-University in Göttingen |
| 01.08.1985 - 30.09.1989 | Hochschulassistent at the same place |
| October 1989 | Habilitation at the department of mathematics of the Georg August-University in Göttingen |
| 01.10.1989 - 31.08.1990 | C2-Oberassistent at the same place |
| September 1990 - December 1991 | Associate Professor (with tenure) at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, U.S.A. |
| December 1991 - August 1996 | C3-Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz |
| September 1996 - September 2010 | C4/W3-Professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University in Münster |
| since October 2010 | W3-Professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn |
| since March 2026 | retired |
| Awards | |
| April 2001 | Offer from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn |
| March 2003 | Offer from the ETH Zürich |
| November 2003 | Award of the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis |
| February 2008 | Award of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis |
| July 2008 | Invited lecture at the 5-th European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam |
| August 2009 | Offer from the Georg August-University in Göttingen |
| May 2010 | Offer from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn |
| May 2010 | Affiliation of Leopoldina (Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften) |
| August 2010 | Invited lecture in the topology section at the International Congress of Mathematics 2010 in Hyderabad, India |
| August 2012 | Appointment to Max-Planck-fellow |
| February 2013 | Appointment to Fellow of the American Mathematical Society |
| April 2013 | Affiliation of Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste |
| May 2015 | Award of an ERC Advanced Grant |
| June 2025 | Award of the von Staudt Prize |
| Stays at other institutions (for more than two months) | |
| February 1985 - April 1985 | University in Edinburgh, Schottland |
| September 1985 - June 1986 | University in Aarhus, Dänemark |
| October 1988 - March 1989 | The University of Chicago, U.S.A. |
| July 1989 - August 1989 | University in Odense, Dänemark |
| February 1990 - April 1990 | The University of Chicago, U.S.A. |
| April 1996 - July 1996 | MPI Bonn |
| January 2001 - February 2001 | MPI Bonn |
| November 2002 - December 2002 | MPI Bonn |
| April 2005 - July 2005 | MPI Bonn |
| October 2007 - December 2007 | MPI Bonn |
| September 2009 - December 2009 | HIM, Bonn |