Rüdiger Valk

Rüdiger Valk (born 5 August 1945) is a German mathematician. From 1976 to 2010 he was Professor for Theoretical Computer Science (Informatics) at the ''Institut für Informatik'' (later ''Fachbereich Informatik'') of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Valk studied mathematics at the University of Bonn (Germany). Supervised by Wilfried Brauer, he continued studying for a postgraduate degree at Bonn and received his PhD in Mathematics in 1974. In 1976 he became Professor for Theoretical Computer Science (Informatics). From 1985 until 2010 he was head of the research group on theoretical foundations of computer science (Theoretische Grundlagen der Informatik, TGI) at the University of Hamburg. Provided by Wikipedia