Hohage, Thorsten, Prof. Dr.

Professor for Inverse Problems


  • Since 2017 Fellow at MPI Solar Systems Research
  • Since 2009 Full (W3) professor at Georg-August Universität Göttingen
  • 2007 - 2009 Associate (W2) professor at Georg-August Universität Göttingen
  • 2002 - 2007 Junior professor at Institute of Numerical and Applied Mathematics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
  • 2000 - 2002 Postdoc at Zuse Institute Berlin with Peter Deuflhard
  • 1998 - 2000 Research assistant at CRC F013 Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing, Linz, Austria
  • 1996 - 1998 Research assistant at Institute of Industrial Mathematics, Johannes-Kepler University Linz, Austria


Major Research Interests

  • inverse problems
  • inverse problems in partial differential equations, in particular inverse scattering problems
  • regularization theory for statistical inverse problems
  • variational regularization
  • efficient algorithms
  • application areas: phase retrieval problems in optics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), helioseismology
  • transparent boundary condition, resonances
  • spectrally convergent methods, in particular Hardy space infinite elements
  • numerical computation of resonances
  • Helmholtz, Maxwell, and elasticity equations
  • back-propagating modes

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