Date and place of birth: 10.04.1951 in Nordhorn (District Graf. Bentheim)
Parents: Willibald Hoppe, Steuerrat
and Hilde, born Horstmeier
Marital Status: widowed
Nationality: German
1957-1961 Elementary School in Bad Bentheim
1961-1963 Gymnasium Nordhorn
1963-1969 Gymnasium Bad Bentheim
1969-1975 Study of Mathematics with secondary subject Physics
at Techn. University of Berlin
1969 Abitur
1975 Diploma in Mathematics
1979 Doctoral Thesis
1986 Habilitation
1971-1975 Assistant teacher at the Dep. of Math. at TU Berlin
1975-1980 Scientific Assistant at the Dep. of Math. at TU Berlin
1980-1981 Research Assistant Professor at the
Courant Institute of Math. Sciences, New York, N.Y..
1981-1983 DFG Reseaxch Grant
(Research stays (among others:)
as Visiting Research Member at the
Mathematics Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin)
1982-1988 Academic Assistant at the Dep. of Math. at TU Berlin
1988-1989 Academic Fellow at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin
1989-1990 Associate Professor at the University of Linköping, Sweden.
1990-1994 C3-Professorship at the Mathematical Institute, TU Munich
1995- C4-Professorship at the Faculty of Mathematics
and Natural Sciences, University of Augsburg.
Native Language German
Foreign Languages English, French