Mathematician Konstantin Pankrashkin appointed

Prof. Dr. Konstantin Pankrashkin has been appointed Professor of Analysis and its Applications at the Institute of Mathematics. He was previously a lecturer (”Maître de conferences”) at the Paris-Sud University, France.

Pankrashkin studied applied mathematics at the Mordovian State University in Saransk, Russia. He completed his doctoral project at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics in Moscow and at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2002. As a postdoctoral fellow, Pankrashkin conducted research at the Humboldt University as well as the Paris-Nord and Paris-Sud universities, and has been a lecturer at the latter since 2008. He completed his research habilitation degree there in 2010.

Partial differential equations are one focus of his research. Pankrashkin uses theoretical methods to study various wave processes with external interactions as well as novel mathematical models in order to describe so-called metamaterials with special electronic and magnetic properties.