Volker Mehrmann has been appointed “EMS Distinguished Lecturer 2026”
The nomination for EMS Distinguished Lecturer was jointly submitted by the EMS Topical Activity Groups "ANLAMA – Numerical Linear Algebra" and "Dissipative and Port-Hamiltonian systems, Modelling, Simulation, Control, and Optimization".
An EMS Distinguished Speaker is a prestigious appointment, awarded by the EMS to an internationally renowned researcher.
They are asked to deliver a plenary lecture at a large regional or international European conference. See https://euromathsoc.org/list-ems-distinguished-speakers. Volker will deliver a lecture as the EMS Distinguished Lecturer at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference on 8–12 July 2026 in Vienna.
We warmly congratulate Volker Mehrmann on this outstanding distinction.