Curriculum Vitae of Johannes Alfred Buchmann
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born on 20th of November,1953 married two sons: Jan, born 1993 and Daniel, born 1994 |
Education
| 1973-1979 | Student of Mathematics, Physics, Philisophy and Pedagogy at the University of Cologne |
| 1979 | 1. Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien equivalent of MA |
| 1982 | Doctorate in Mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Cologne Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Stender |
| 1984 | 2. Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien |
| 1988 | Habilitation for Mathematics at the University of Düsseldorf Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pohst |
Professional Life
| 1980-1983 | Research Assistant at the University of Cologne |
| 1980-1983 | Mathematics teacher at the "Fachoberschule am Krieler Dom" in Cologne |
| 1983-1984 | Teacher Training at "Bezirksseminar" in Leverkusen |
| 1984-1985 | Research assistat at the University of Cologne |
| 1985-1986 | Feodor-Lynen research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at Ohio State University Advisor: Prof. Dr. H. Zassenhaus |
| 1986-1988 | Research assistant at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Düsseldorf |
| 1988 | received a reputation of university lecturer at the University of Dortmund (C2), rejected |
| 1988-1989 | Professor (C3) of Computer Science, "Universität des Saarlandes" |
| 1988 | Call Work Division (C4) DIFF Tübingen, rejected |
| 1989-1996 | Professor (C4) of Computer Science, "Universität des Saarlandes" |
| 1994 | Call C4 professor at the University of Potsdam, rejected |
| since 1996 | Professor (C4/W3) of Computer Science and Mathematics, TU Darmstadt |
| 1997 | Call from RISC, Linz, Austria, rejected |
| 2000 | Call (C4) professor at the "Ruhr-Universität Bochum", rejected |
| 2000 | Cofounder of FlexSecure GmbH |
| 2001-2007 | Vicepresident of TU Darmstadt |
| since 2003 | Chairman of CAST e.V. |
| since 2008 | Director of the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) |
Awards and Honors
| 1985 | Feodor-Lynen research fellow of AvH |
| 1993 | Leibniz award of "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" |
| 1996 | Corresponding member of the "Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz" |
| 1997, 1998 | Award: Best Lecture Teaching, Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt |
| 2002 | Member of the "Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz" |
| 2003 | Innovation Award, State of Hesse |
| 2006 | Member of the "Berlin-Brandenburger Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2006 | Karl Heinz Beckurts Award |
| 2006 | Honory doctorate of the University of Debrecen, Hungary |
| 2008 | Member of the "Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften acatech" |
| 2008 | IT Security Award of the "Horst Görtz-Stiftung" |
Teaching
More than 150 diploma theses supervised
47 doctoral theses supervised
Cooperation partners (selected)
T-Systems, Siemens, Bundesamt für die Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Siemens, Hitachi, Sony, NTT, Schenck, Microsoft, Deutsche Lufthansa, Government of JapanFunctions (selected)
Member Editorial Board Journal of Cryptology 1990 bis 2009,Contributions to Discrete Mathematics,
International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Teubner Texte zur Informatik,
Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences: Number Theory
Advisor of the "Graduiertenkolleg Effizienz und Komplexität von Algorithmen und Rechenanlagen" at the Department of Computer Science, University of the State of Saarland 1990-1996
Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, University of the State of Saarland 1993-1995
Dean FB Informatik TU Darmstadt 2000 - 2001
Vicepresident TU Darmstadt 2001-2007
Consultant for DFG-Einzelanträge, Forschergruppen, Sonderforschungsbereiche ,
National Science Foundation, US,
National Science and Engeneering Research Council, Canada,
Schweizer Nationalfond
Member advisory board for the "Research center for applied cryptography", University of Waterloo
Member of Technical Advisory Panel of Center for Information Security and Cryptography Calgary
Member of the " Kuratorium des Fraunhofer-Instituts SIT"
Member of the scientific advisory council of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation


