Prof. Dr. Martin Burger

As a research unit of Helmholtz Imaging, Martin leads the Computional Imaging Group at DESY. Together with his team, he is developing imaging reconstruction methods and novel mathematical tools enabling the further development.

Martin has his background in applied mathematics, where he specialized in the fields of inverse problems, mathematical modelling, and partial differential equations. His appointment at DESY is joint with a full professor position in the mathematics department of Universität Hamburg. Before joining Helmholtz Imaging Martin was full professor at Universität Münster and later Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

He is a world-leading expert in inverse problems and applied mathematics and received numerous honors and grants, including the Calderon prize of the inverse problems international association (IPIA) and the ERC Consolidator Grant 2014. He was invited speaker of the leading mathematics conferences ECM (2021), ICM (2022), and ICIAM (2023). He serves on several committees and editorial boards; since 2017 he is an editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Cambridge University Press).

Academic career