Max Pfeffer

I am an adjunct professor at Technische Universität Chemnitz. Since 2021, I have my own DFG project Constrained Matrix and Tensor Factorizations and Their Application in Data Fusion. Furthermore, I am a research consultant at SimulaMet, Oslo.

Research Interests

• Matrix and Tensor Factorizations

• Riemannian Optimization

• Cancer Classification

• Low-Rank Approximation

• Numerics in Quantum Chemistry

• Parametric PDEs

Recent Collaborations

• TU Chemnitz:
  Martin Stoll

• SimulaMet, Oslo:
  Evrim Acar Ataman

• MPI MiS Leipzig
  Bernd Sturmfels

• Universität Augsburg
  André Uschmajew

• Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
  Markus Bachmayr

• Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova
  Ulrich Pfeffer

• TU München
  Felix Krahmer

• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
  José Samper

A detailed CV is available upon request.

Positions

• Since May 2022: Research consultant at SimulaMet, Oslo, Norway

• April 2022 - September 2022: Adjunct professor at Technische Universität Chemnitz

• Since January 2021: DFG Eigene Stelle at Technische Universität Chemnitz

• July 2020 - December 2020: PostDoc with Markus Bachmayr at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

• April 2020 - September 2020: Adjunct professor at Universität Leipzig

• October 2017 - June 2020: PostDoc with André Uschmajew at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig

• February 2014 - October 2017: PhD-student with Reinhold Schneider at TU Berlin

Education

• March 2018: PhD in Mathematics at TU Berlin

• January 2014: M.Sc. in Mathematics at TU Berlin

• October 2011: B.Sc. in Mathematics at TU Berlin

• June 2007: Abitur at Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium, Berlin

• December 2022: Our article "Evaluation and Comparison of Multi-Omics Data Integration Methods for Subtyping of Cutaneous Melanoma" has been published in Biomedicines.

• October 2022: Our article "Riemannian thresholding methods for row-sparse and low-rank matrix recovery" has been published in Numerical Algorithms.

• October 2022: For the winter semester, I have extended my adjunct professorship at Technische Universität Chemnitz.

• May 2022: Our article "Particle number conservation and block structures in matrix product states" has been published in Calcolo.

• May 2022: I have assumed a part-time position as research consultant at SimulaMet, Oslo.

• April 2022: For the summer semester, I have assumed an adjunct professorship at Technische Universität Chemnitz.

• August 2021: We uploaded our new preprint "The cone of 5×5 completely positive matrices".

• May 2021: We announce the COMinDS YoungResearchers' Seminar that will take place online on Friday, May 28, at 2 pm CET.

• April 2021: We uploaded our new preprint "Particle number conservation and block structures in Matrix Product States".

• March 2021: We uploaded our new preprint "Riemannian thresholding methods for row-sparse and low-rank matrix recovery".

• February 2021: Our article "Computing eigenspaces with low rank constraints" has been published in SISC.

• January 2021: I have started my DFG project on Constrained Matrix and Tensor Factorizations and Their Application in Data Fusion.