Heike Fassbender
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Heike Fassbender is a German mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra. She is a professor in the Institute for Computational Mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and the president for the 2017–2019 term of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM, the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics).[1]
Fassbender earned a master's degree in computer science at the University at Buffalo,[2] and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bremen in 1992. Her dissertation, Numerische Verfahren zur diskreten trigonometrischen Polynomapproximation, was jointly supervised by Angelika Bunse-Gerstner and Ludwig F. Elsner.[3]
Fassbender moved to the Technical University of Munich in 2000.[4] She joined the Technical University of Braunschweig faculty in 2002, and was vice president for teaching, studies, and further education at the university from 2008 to 2012.[2]
Book
Fassbender is the author of the book Symplectic Methods for the Symplectic Eigenproblem (Kluwer, 2002).[5]
