Curriculum vitae for Axel Ruhe as of October 31, 2008

Data

• Born October 14, 1942 in Jönköping, Sweden
• Married 1968-82 to Gudrun, born Lindberg
• Children, Daniel born 1970, Olof born 1972, Ebba born 1975

Education

• High school 1961, Jönköping
• Fil Kand (Bachelor of Science), 1962, Lund
• Fil Lic (Lower Doctorate, old order), 1968, Lund
• Fil Dr (Higher Doctorate, old order), 1970, Lund

Positions

• Assistant and Student Support, Lund, 1962-70
• Lecturer, Umeå, 1970-74
• Professor, Umeå, 1975-83
• Professor, Göteborg, 1983-

Visits abroad

• University of Texas at Austin, 4 months, 1967
• Akademia Nauk Leningrad, 2 months, 1969
• Stanford University, 1 month, 1973
• University of California San Diego, 1 year, 1977-78
• Stanford University, 4 months, 1982
• Academia Sinica, Beijing, Wuhan, 1 month, 1987
• Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne Ill, 1 month 1989
• University of California, Berkeley, 1 year 1994-95

Professional assignments

• Dean of School for Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Göteborg 1987-1993
• Member of Committe for Physics and Mathematics of Swedish Natural Sciences research Council (NFR), 1983-89
• Board member of ITM (Swedish institute of applied mathematics) 1988-
• Chairman of steering committe for research program in computational methods for super- and parallel computer systems for NUTEK (Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development), 1990-1996
• Member Göteborg Royal Society for Arts and Sciences, 1988-