Simon A. King′s Curriculum Vitæ


Born on September 16, 1972, in Frankfurt/Main.
Nationality: German.
Married, two sons born in 1996 and 1999.


Work Education/Qualifications

Publications

Selected conference/workshop presentations

Current appointment

Since June 2007: Post Doc at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, working on a project in Computational Group Cohomology.

Previous employment after PhD

Aug. 2001 – May 2006
April 2007 – June 2007
Research assistant at University of Technology Darmstadt
May 2006 – April 2007 Assistant to the director at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.

Teaching

1994-1996 Student assistant, leading exercise groups, e.g., in Calculus, Geometry, Algebraic Topology, at JWGU Frankfurt.
2001-2006 Research assistant, teaching Descriptive Geometry for architects (several times), Linear Algebra (one semester), and Differential Forms (one semester) at University of Technology Darmstadt.
Summer 2004 Lecture course on 3-Dimensional Topology (Lecture Notes in German) at University of Technology Darmstadt.
Winter 2004/5 Seminar course on Hyperbolic Manifolds at University of Technology Darmstadt.

Workshop organization

May 2008 Co-organiser, together with Louis Kauffman, Vassily Manturov and Józef Przytycki, for the workshop on Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach

Work Education/Qualifications

Education and academic qualifications

1983-1992 Lessing-Gymnasium (High School) in Frankfurt/Main.
Languages: Latin, French and Ancient Greek.
1992/93-1997/98 Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main.
Dec. 1997: Diploma "mit Auszeichnung" (with Distinction) in mathematics and additional subject theoretical physics.
Diploma thesis: "Kollabierretrakte und Zustandssummeninvarianten von 3-Mannigfaltigkeiten" ("Spines and state sum invariants of 3-manifolds").
Advisor: Prof. Gerhard Burde.
Summer 1997 English course in Broadstairs, UK.
1998 - 2001 Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (" Institute of Advanced Mathematical Research") in Strasbourg (France)
June 2001: Defense of doctoral thesis entitled "Polytopality of triangulations"
Advisor: Prof. Vladimir Turaev
2007 Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) at University of Technology Darmstadt (Germany)
Habilitationsschrift: (postdoctoral thesis) "Verschiedene Anwendungen kombinatorischer und algebraischer Strukturen in der Topologie" ("Various Applications of Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Topology")

Scholarships

1993-1997 Undergraduate scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation).
1998-2001 Doctoral scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

I attended several Summer Schools (partially interdisciplinary) organised by the Studienstiftung.

Music

  • Violin since age of 6 years.
  • 1992-1998 violin class of Prof. Alois Kottmann.
  • Since 1994 Figuralchor Frankfurt, conducted by Prof. Alois Ickstadt.
  • 1995-1998 and since 2001 singing class of Prof. Gerhard Meier.




Simon King
School of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics
National University of Ireland, Galway
University Road
Galway (Note that there is no ZIP code in Ireland)
Ireland
E-mail: simon dot king at nuigalway dot ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 49 3175
Fax: +353 (0)91 49 4542
Office: C212, Áras de Brún



Last change: 09/25/2008