Prof. em. Dr. Dietmar A. Salamon

Dietmar Salamon has been Full Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich since October 1998.

Dietmar Salamon was born on 7 March 1953 in Bremen. He studied mathematics in Hannover and Bremen, and earned his doctorate at the University of Bremen in 1982 with a thesis on control theory. He spent two years as a Research Associate at the Mathematics Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and then one year as an Academic Visitor at the Forschungsinstitut fur Mathematik at the ETH Zurich. In 1986 he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Warwick, where he became full professor in 1994. In the summer term of 1988 he was a visiting professor at the University of Bremen and in the winter term of 1991 he was a visiting professor at the University of Madison, Wisconsin.

In his research, Dietmar Salamon is concerned with symplectic topology and related areas. Symplectic topology is a relatively new subject that became a major branch of mathematics during the last decade. Some of the important new techniques are Gromov's pseudoholomorphic curves, Floer homology, and the Seiberg-Witten invariants of four-manifolds.