Norbert Hungerbühler

Professor Hungerbühler’s primary research interest is non-linear partial differential equations, although he has also published a number of papers in other areas of mathematics.

Norbert Hungerbühler has been a Professor of Mathematics and Education in the Department of Mathematics since 2010.

He was born in Flawil in 1964.

Norbert Hungerbühler obtained a degree in mathematics from ETH Zurich in 1989. The same year, he also completed his teacher training.

In 1994 he completed a doctorate in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich. In 1995 he worked as an SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) research fellow in the Mathematics Department at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

From January to December 1996, he was a postdoctoral student at ETH Zurich, where he went on to become a senior assistant from 1997-1998 and qualify as a professor in 2000.

From September 1998 to August 1999, he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.

From September 1999 to September 2000, Norbert Hungerbühler was an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, AL, USA, before being appointed as a full professor at the University of Fribourg.