M Zuhair Nashed Author & Editor

Willi Freeden studied Mathematics, Geography, and Philosophy. He received his Philosophicum 1970, Diplom in Mathematics 1971, Staatsexamen in Mathematics and Geography 1972, Ph.D. in Mathematics 1975, Habilitation in Mathematics 1979, all from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He has served for many years as a Professor at the RWTH Aachen University and the University of Kaiser-slautern. He has held various visiting professor positions, e.g., at the Ohio State University, Columbus (Department of Geodetic Science and Surveying). He is recipient of the RWTH Borchers Award, the Eurasian Association on Inverse Problems (EAIP) Award, and the Fellowship of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). Since 1996 he is a member of the German Geodetic Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich. He had the position of the Vice-President for Research and Technology at the University of Kaiserslautern from 2002 to 2006. He is author, editor, and coeditor of 19 books, published more than 220 papers, several expository papers, and book chapters. He is the (founding) Editor-in-Chief of the Springer “GEM International Journal on Geomathematics”, Editor-in-Chief of the Springer “Handbook of Geomathematics”, Editor-in-Chief of the (German) Springer-Spektrum “Handbuch Tiefe Geothermie” and “Hand-buch Oberfl¨achennahe Geothermie”, Editor-in-Chief of the Birkh¨auser book se-ries “Geosystems Mathematics”, Editor-in-Chief of the Birkh¨auser lecture notes “Geosystems Mathematics and Computing”, 2015 Editor-in-Chief of the second edition of the Springer “Handbook of Geomathematics”, 2018 Editor-in-Chief of the Birkh¨auser “Handbook of Mathematical Geodesy”, Editor-in-Chief of the Springer-Spektrum ”Handbuch der Geod¨asie”. He is member of the editorial board of a large number of international journals. He is the organizer of several Oberwol-fach conferences, mini-symposia and Special Sessions at meetings of the American Mathematical Society.

M. Zuhair Nashed received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. He has served for many years as a Professor at Georgia Tech and the University of Delaware and has held visiting professor positions at the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, AUB, and KFUPM. He has held distinguished visiting scholar positions at many universities around the world. He is a fellow of the Amer-ican Mathematical Society (Inaugural Class of 2013) and the recipient of the Lester Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America, the Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award and Sustained Research Award in Science from Georgia Tech, Dr. Zakir Husain Award of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, as well as several other international awards. He has published over 140 papers in mathematics and 30 papers in applied sciences, physics and engineering, has written 30 expository papers and book chapters, and authored and edited 15 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of “Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization”, Ex-ecutive Editor of “Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing”, founding and past coeditor of the “Journal of Integral Equations”, and a member of the ed-itorial board of 36 journals. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Springer “Handbook of Geomathematics”, Editor-in-Chief of the Birkh¨auser book series “Geosystems Mathematics” and of the Birkh¨auser “Lecture Notes on Geosystems Mathematics and Computing”, and Editor-in-Chief of “Handbook of Mathematical Geodesy”. He has served for 40 years as Executive Editor of the book series “Pure and Ap-plied Mathematics: A Program of Monographs, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes”, published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., and later by Chapman & Hall /CRC. He is Editor-in-Chief of the book series “Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applica-tions”, launched recently by World Scientific. He was invited to give an hour lecture at the American Mathematical Society and has also given three plenary lectures at meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and plenary lectures at meetings of the French, Tunisian and Lebanese Mathematical Societies, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. He gave over 400 plenary and invited talks at conferences and colloquia. He has organized over 40 conferences, mini-symposia, and special sessions.