About the authors
Gen Nakamura received his Bachelor's Degree 1971 from International Christian University,
his Master's Degree 1974 from the Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University and
Doctor of Science Degree 1977 from the Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan
University.
He worked as Assistant Professor 1977–1991 at Josai University, 1981–1982 Lecturer of
MIT, 1982–1983 Japan–US Exchange Fellow, 1989 Visiting Scientist of Brown University,
1991–1994 Professor of Josai University, 1994–1997 Professor of Science University of
Tokyo, 1997–2001 Professor of Gunma University, 2001–2012 Professor of the Graduate School
of Science, Hokkaido University, 2012–2013 Specially appointed Professor of the Graduate
School of Science, Hokkaido University, 2013–2015 Professor of Inha University, since 2015
Harim Professor (special professor) Inha University, 2001—Visiting Professor of South East
University. Professor Nakamura has served 2006–2009 as Program Officer of Japan Science
for the Promotion of Science, 2009–2013 Board Member of Mathematical Society of Japan,
2011–2015 Expert Committee Member of Research Institute of Mathematical Science, Kyoto
University and since 2011 Committee Member Based on the Fields of Specialties of Science
Council of Japan. He received several prizes, for example the Autumn Prize of Mathematical
Society of Japan, 2000 and the Prize for Science and Technology by the Minister of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, 2009. He is Editor of
Eurasian Journal of Mathematical and Computer Applications and Member of the steering
committee of Eurasian Association for Inverse Problems.
Professor Nakamura has published 170 publications recorded in the MathScinet data
base.
Roland Potthast received his Diplom 1993, a PhD in Mathematics 1994 and a Habilitation
Degree in Mathematics 1999 at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Postdoctoral positions
led him 1996–1998 to the University of Delaware, USA. After the Habilitation, Roland
worked in a Consultancy Company in Cologne, Germany, 1999–2000, and at the Brunel
University in London 2000–2001. From 2001 to 2006 he was leader of a Young Researcher
Group on Inverse Problems in Göttingen, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. He received
an extraordinary professorship at the University of Göttingen in 2004. As a part-time
activity, he was Owner and CEO of an IT-company based in Göttingen for seven years
2005–2012, providing internet-based services to large-scale European companies.
Roland moved to the UK in 2006, with a lectureship at the University of Reading 2006,
with promotions to Reader (Associate Professor) 2008 and Full Professor in 2010. Roland
has been visiting professor at the University of Rennes, France, 2007–2009 and at the
Research Center Jülich, Germany, 2009 and had a call to a W3 professorship in Munich 2010.
Since 2010 he holds a post as 'Director and Professor' (B1) at the German Federal Ministry
of Transport and digital Infrastructure (BMVI), leading the Data Assimilation Department
of the German Weather Service (DWD) in Frankfurt/Offenbach, with a part-time involvement
as full professor at the University of Reading, UK. He is supervising a group of about 25
scientists and coordinates a network of about 45 researchers in data assimilation and
inverse problems working in collaboration with DWD. Roland received several prizes and
awards, among them 1994 the best PhD award of the German Mathematical Society, four years
of full-time funding by the German Science foundation DFG and five years by the Volkswagen
Foundation; in the UK an EPSRC Springboard fellowship in 2007 and a Leverhulme research
fellowship in 2008, a 'Bridging-the-Gaps Award' by EPSRC in 2009–12; and the Pichorides
Distinguished Lectureship of the University of Crete, Greece, in 2015. Professor Potthast
has published more than 65 mathematical research papers, which received more than 1000
citations, a book on inverse scattering theory 2001 and a book on neural field theory
2014.
