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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |