Prof. Boris Vexler studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University and Heidelberg University. He obtained his doctorate degree at Heidelberg in 2004 and his lecturer qualification at the University of Graz in 2008.
After completing his doctorate, he worked at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz and, in 2008, was appointed professor for control theory at TUM. After rejecting offers from the universities of Vienna and Düsseldorf, Prof. Vexler was appointed to the Chair of Optimal Control at TUM in 2013. He has served as a speaker of the International Research Training Group IGDK 1754 since 2012 and from 2016 to 2019, he was the dean of studies of the TUM Department of Mathematics.
Prof. Vexler’s research area is the numerical analysis of problems described with partial differential equations (PDEs). The focus of this work is on developing and analyzing efficient numerical algorithms to solve optimization problems with PDEs.
