• Karsten Urban
• Born in Hamburg, Germany, Dec 3, 1966.
• Maried, three children.
• High school diploma (Abitur) 1985.
• Army as officer of reserve 1985-87.
• Undergraduate student of Mathematics and Computer science at the University of Bonn 1987-89, bachelor (Vordiplom) in Mathematics 1989.
• Student assistant (Studentische Hilfskraft) at the RWTH Aachen 1989-92.
• Freelance of Plath GmbH, Hamburg, 1990-92.
• Graduate student at the RWTH Aachen 1989-92, Master (Diplom) in Mathematics 1992.
• Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) at the RWTH Aachen 1992-93.
• Ph.D. student (grant) in the "Graduiertenkolleg Analyse und Konstruktion in der Mathematik" at the RWTH Aachen 1992-95.
• Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Mathematics at the RWTH Aachen 1995.
• Since 1995 scientific assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the RWTH Aachen.
• Since 1998 scientific assistant (wissenschaftlicher Assistant) at the RWTH Aachen.
• 1998-99 Visiting Young Researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.) Istituto di Analisi Numerica, Pavia, Italy.
• Habilitation RWTH Aachen, 2001.
• 9-12/2001 Visiting associate professor (senior onderzoeker) at the Utrecht University
• Call for an Associate Professorship in Numerics the University of Ulm 2002 (accepted)
• Head of the department of Numerics at the University of Ulm, 2004.
• Speaker of the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1100 Modelling, analysis and simulation in econmoymathematics
• Award Cooperation Science-Economy 2004
• 03/2005: Call for full professorship in mathematics Scientific Computing in Engineering at the TU Darmstadt (not realized)
• 04/2005: Call for full professorship in Applied Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart (not realized)
• since 07/2005: full professor, department of Numerics at the University of Ulm
• Teaching award of Baden-Württemberg 2005
• Foundation speaker of the Scientific Computing Centre Ulm
• Speaker of the Research Network Scientific Computing in Baden-Württemberg, 2006-
• Associate Editor of SIAM Journal Scientific Computing, 2007-2018
• Award Cooperation Science-Economy 2008 (UZWR)
• Editor of Advances in Computational Mathematics, 2009-
• 11/2009 Call for full professorship Applied Mathematics in Engineering Sciences at the TU Hamburg-Harburg (not realized)
• 12/2009 Offer for full professorship Scientific Computing at the TU Darmstadt (not realized)
• Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Vice Spokesman  of the Research Network for Scientific Computation in Baden-Württemberg 2012-
• DFG Liaison Officer for Ulm Universität , 2012 -
• Chairman  of expert committee for Mathematics  of ASIIN, 2014 -
• Member of Supervisory Board of Ulm University, 2016 -
• Managing Editor in Chief of Advances in Computational Mathematics, 2016-
• Editor of Springer Nature Partial Differential Equations and Applications, 2019-
• Editorial Board Member of Mathematical and Computational Applications, 2020-