Timo de Wolff
Professor
TU Braunschweig

Address:
Prof. Dr. Timo de Wolff
Institut für Analysis und Algebra
AG Algebra
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Universitätsplatz 2
38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Office: Room 525
Phone: +49-(0)531-391-7503
E-mail:t.de-wolff(AT)tu-braunschweig.de, and
applied_algebra(AT)tu-braunschweig.de.
ORCID: ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0883-1389.
Secretariat: Silke Thiel, Room 603
Phone Secretariat: +49-(0)531-391-7552
E-mail Secretariat: s.thiel(AT)tu-braunschweig.de.
Photo credits: Die Junge Akademie / Jenna Dallwitz

I am the head of the research group on "Applied Algebra" at the Department of Mathematics of the Technische Universität Braunschweig. In the years 2025 to 2027, I also serve as the department head for the mathematics department.

In the years 2019 - 2024 I was an elected member of the German Young Academy -- Die Junge Akademie (Class 2019; my profile at the JA). In the academic year 2022/23, I served as the chair of Die Junge Akademie (and was a member of the board in the years 2021/22 and 2022/23). Here you can find the press release.

In the years 2017 - 2023 I was a member of the Emmy Noether Program of the DFG, leading a project on "New Certificates of Nonnegativity and Their Application in Science and Engineering".
Before I came to TU Braunschweig, I held positions at the Technical University Berlin, the Texas A&M University, the Saarland University, and the Goethe University.

Here you can find my CV.

Office hours: By appointment

How to reach me

Editorial, Organizatorial and Committee Work

I am an associate editor for the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry.

I am member of the advisory board for the MEGA conference series.

In 2020 - 2026 I am member of the advisory board for the ICMS conference series.

Joint with Thorsten Theobald, Christian Kirches, Birte Ostermann, Nikolas Rieke, and Jonas Ellwanger, I organize a Summer school on "Nonlinear Optimization and Combinatorics. It will occur at TU Braunschweig at August 28 till September 2, 2025 as a satellite event of the annual meeting of the SPP "Combinatorial Synergies" in Hannover at September 3-5. We have a poster for the event, which you can find here.

In January - May 2025 the exhibition " Unendlichkeit - Leere - Lebendigkeit ", which I organized joint with Anne Hemkendreis and Michael Saliba, occurs at the Planetarium Hamburg. It is, next to the Planetarium, supported by Die Junge Akademie and the Bodo-von-Borries-Stiftung.

In June - November 2022 I was joint with Sebastian Stiller, supported by Janin Heuer, the main organizer for "Die 7 größten Abenteuer der Mathematik" ("The 7 Biggest Adventures in Mathematics") - a series of talks and outreach activities about the seven Millennium Problems taking place in seven German cities.
The event was organized by Die Junge Akademie (in a project joint with our Alumna Anna Wienhard) and the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung. It was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and was under patronage of Bettina Stark-Watzinger, the federal Minister of Education and Research.
Here you find the poster, the press release (in German), and the trailer for the series. The recorded talks are here.


Last Update: April 8th, 2025