Academic Record

Curriculum Vitae

Marcus Greferath  ·  Associate Professor, University College Dublin

Identity

Personal Details

Full Name

Marcus Greferath

Date & Place of Birth

January 29, 1963
Oberhausen, Germany

Citizenship

German

Contact

5 Lakelands Grove
Stillorgan, County Dublin, Ireland
+353-(0)-89-6161-139
marcus.greferath@ucd.ie
Academic Formation

Education & Degrees

2000
Habilitation in Mathematics University of Duisburg, Germany
1993
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Mathematics University of Mainz, Germany
1990
Diploma in Mathematics (equiv. M.Sc.) University of Mainz, Germany
Present

Current Positions

2019 – present
Associate Professor School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Ireland
2022 – present
Adjunct Professor Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Career History

Previous Work Experience

2015 – 2019
Finland Distinguished Professor Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2005 – 2014
Senior Lecturer University College Dublin, Ireland
2001 – 2004
Associate Professor San Diego State University, California, USA (after early tenure)
2000 – 2001
Hochschuldozent University of Duisburg, Germany (after Habilitation)
1999 – 2000
Visiting Professor Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
1997 – 1999
Research Fellow AT&T Research Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ, USA
Resources

Research Funding

> €700,000
Finland Distinguished Professorship
Academy of Finland  ·  2015–2019  ·  Co-PI (co-PI with C. Hollanti, Aalto)
€3,500,000
SFI Mathematics Initiative 2006 — Claude Shannon Institute
Science Foundation Ireland  ·  2007–2013  ·  Co-PI
€620,400
SFI Equipment Call 2007
Science Foundation Ireland  ·  2008  ·  Co-PI
€596,000
COST Action IC1104: Random Network Coding & Designs over GF(q)
European Science Foundation  ·  2012–2016  ·  PI
€467,672
SFI PI Award — Public-Key Cryptography Based on Finite Simple Semi-Rings
Science Foundation Ireland  ·  2009–2013  ·  PI
Mentorship

Supervision

Post-Docs
  • Dr. Vitaly Skachek (Dublin, 2007–2010)
  • Dr. Jens Zumbrägel (Dublin, 2009–2012)
  • Dr. Oliver Gnilke (Helsinki, 2015–2018)
  • Dr. Marzieh Arabi-Kakavand (Helsinki, 2017–2019)
Ph.D. Students
  • Andreas Kendziorra (Dublin, 2009–2012)
  • Cathy McFadden (Dublin, 2007–2013)
  • Oliver Gnilke (Dublin, 2010–2014)
  • Ferdinand Blomqvist (Helsinki, 2015–2020)
  • Negin Karimi (Helsinki, 2017–2020)
BSc / MSc Students
  • S. O'Connor (Dublin, 2013); C. Liao (Dublin, 2012); M. Curran (Dublin, 2007)
  • R. Therkelsen (San Diego, 2004); S. Sach (Duisburg, 2003); T. Mügge (Duisburg, 2002)
Service & Recognition

Further Academic Merits

  • Editor-in-Chief: Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC), 2007–2017; impact factor 0.879 in 2018
  • Conference Chair of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2010, Dublin; Publications Manager for ISIT 2022, Helsinki; Chair of European COST Action IC1104
  • Co-organizer of Oberwolfach Workshop on Contemporary Coding Theory, March 2019; Co-organizer of BIRS-CMO Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Coding Theory and Communication, October 2020
  • Keynote & invited speakerships: I4CS 2022 (Casablanca), 5th Croatian Mathematics Congress 2012 (Rijeka), ALCOMA 2010 (Turnau), Conference on Codes, Invariants, and Modular Forms, MPI Bonn 2008
  • Member of TPC: WCC 2013 (Bergen), MTNS 2012 (Melbourne), MTNS 2010 (Budapest), ISIT 2005 (Adelaide)
  • Service as external examiner in doctoral and habilitation defences (USA, UK, Switzerland, Spain, Germany)
  • Assessor in appointment procedures and tenure applications (USA 2001, 2011, 2013, 2018)
  • Member of international peer evaluation committees: Bordeaux 2012, REA Brussels (since 2013), Humboldt Foundation 2019
  • Referee for: Advances in Geometry, Ars Combinatoria, Designs Codes and Cryptography, Discrete Mathematics, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Finite Fields and their Applications, Geometriae Dedicata, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Innovations in Incidence Geometry, J. of Algebraic Combinatorics, JCTA
Skills

Technical Skills

Computing

UNIX/Linux administration · C/C++ · Python · MPI-based parallel computing · GPU computing

Computer Algebra

Magma · GAP · Maple · Sage

Other

Pianoforte (advanced)

Languages

Linguistic Skills

Native
German
Fluent
English
Basic
French · Finnish
Impact

Research Output

80 Total publications
2 Granted patents
2 Invention disclosures
Teaching

Pedagogical Competence

  • Habilitation as formal qualification to independently lead a subject in research and teaching
  • More than 30 years of university-level teaching experience
  • Graduate courses: Coding Theory, Modern Algebra
  • Undergraduate courses: Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Cryptography, Mathematics for CS/Engineers
  • Integration of WeBWorK in undergraduate teaching