Joachim von zur Gathen has a Diploma in Mathematik from
ETH Zürich, and graduated as
Dr. phil. from
Universität Zürich in 1980 under the supervision of
Volker Strassen. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Sekantenräume von Kurven". In 1981 he accepted a position in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Toronto, eventually becoming a Full Professor. In 1994, he moved to the Department of Mathematics at
Universität Paderborn. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the B-IT and the Department of Computer Science at the
Universität Bonn. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the
Birkhäuser (now
Springer) journal
Computational Complexity. A symposium at B-IT in 2010 was held in honor of his 60th birthday, and a special issue of the
Journal of Symbolic Computation was published as a
festschrift for the event. ==Selected publications==