| Full name | Erwin Albert Karl Brüning |
| Date and Place of Birth | 07 February 1943 in Seesen/Harz, Germany |
| Citizenship | German, permanent resident of South Africa |
| Maritial status | Divorced, two children |
| 1949 - 1953 | Grammar School in Seesen |
| 1953 - 1959 | Lower Grade Secondary School in Seesen |
| 1959 - 1962 | Apprenticeship as Mechanical Engineer at the Schmalbach |
| March 1963 | Extern maturity examination (Abitur) in Hildesheim after private preparation |
| 1963 -1968 | Studies in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen |
| October 1968 | Diplom examination in Physics; Thesis: Dispersion Relations in Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory; supervisor Prof. Dr. H.J. Borchers |
| May 1971 | Doctor examination (Dr. rer. nat.); Thesis: Über das Holomorphiegebiet der Vier-Punkt-Funktion; supervisor Prof. Dr. H.J. Borchers |
| February 1978 | Cumulative Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bielefeld; Public Lecture: Wie entstehen Turbulenzen? (Ruelle-Takens model) |
| March 1994 | Qualification as University Professor in France for Applied Mathematics and Applications of Mathematics, with the French National Council/Ministry of Education; qualification no 94 12 62 4305 |
| October 1970 - December 1971 | Scientific Assistant at the Faculty of Physics, University of Würzburg, FRG |
| January 1972 - April 1982 | Scientific Assistant at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bielefeld, FRG |
| April 1982 - March 1983 | Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Göttingen, FRG |
| October 1984 - September 1985 | Visiting Professor at the Université de Provence, Luminy, Marseille, France |
| September 1989 - December 1992 | Chief Research Officer at the Department of Mathematics, University of Cape Town, RSA |
| January 1993 - June 1994 | Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Durban-Westville, RSA |
| July 1994 - June 2003 | Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Durban-Westville, RSA |
| July 2003 - December 2004 | Senior Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Durban-Westville, RSA |
| June 2000 - December 2004 | Director, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durban-Westville, RSA |
| January 2005 - today | Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, RSA |
| September 2005 - today | Consultant at the Center for
Quantum Technolgy, School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, RSA |
| January 2008 - December 2008 | Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha Campus, RSA |
| JSPS - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Research Fellow at the RIMS
(Research Institue for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University), April
1983 - December 1983; Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics, University of Nagoya, January 1984 - March 1984 |
| DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | Visiting Fellow of the IHES
(Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette), January
1986 - September 1986, and CEN (Centre des Études Nucléaires, Saclay, France), October 1986 - December 1986 |
| Max Kade Foundation (New York) | Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA, November 1987 - April 1989 |
| October 1979 - March 1980 | Scientific Associate at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland |
| April 1984 - August 1984 | Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, member of the Research Group " Project No 2: Mathematics and Physics", Algebraic quantum field theory |
| January 1987 - October 1987 | Research Fellow at the Faculty of Physics and the Research Center BiBoS (Bielefeld-Bochum-Stochastics), University of Bielefeld |
| October 2001 - April 2002 | Visiting Professor, Research Center BiBoS (Bielefeld-Bonn-Stochastics), University of Bielefeld |
| May 1989 - July 1989 | Senior Research Visitor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA |
| December 1997 - February 1998 | Visiting Professor at the IHES (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette), France |
| March 1998 - April 1998 | Visiting Professor, CPT, CNRS - Luminy, Université de Provence, Marseille, France |
| May 1998 | Visiting Professor, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China |
| June 1998 | Visiting Professor, Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| September 1998 - November 1998 | Visiting Professor, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA |
| July 1998 - August 1998, September
2001 September 2006 - October 2006 |
Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan |
| Dec.1991 - Jan. 1992, Nov.1992 -
Dec.1992, Dec.1993 - Jan. 1994, Dec. 1994 - Jan. 1995, Jan. 1997 - Feb. 1997, June 2005 - July 2005 |
Guest Professor, Research Center BiBoS, University of Bielefeld, Germany |
| June 2007, September 2008 | Visiting Professor, International Graduate College, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany |
| January 10 - Febraury 6, 2011 | Guest Scientist, International Graduate College, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany |
| March and November 2011 | Guest scientist at "The University of Tokushima" and the "Okayama University of Science", Japan |
| April 22 - May12, 2012 | Member of the ZiF Research Group "The Message of Quantum Science - Attempts Towards a Synthesis", convenors: J. Fröhlich (Zürich) and Ph. Blanchard (Bielefeld). Talk entitled "Parametrizations of Density Matrices" at the workshop "Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Transport Theory", April 23 - 28, 2012; convenors: J. Fröhlich (Zürich) and Ph. Blanchard (Bielefeld). |
| September 2012 | Guest of the Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan; host: Prof. R. Sawae |
| April 2013 | International Graduate College, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany; short course "Principles of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" |
| May 2014 | International Graduate College, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany; short course "Selected Topics in Mathematical Physics (Sobolev spaces, operator algebras, positive mappings)" |
| October 2014 | Guest of the Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan; host: Prof. R. Sawae; lecture: "Partial trace and Schmidt decomposition in separable Hilbert spaces and some applications" |
| 19 Nov. 2015 - 23 Dec. 2015 | Guest of the University of Bielefeld; host: Prof. Ph. Blanchard; |
| 15 Nov. 2016- 14 Dec. 2016 | Guest of the University of Bielefeld; host: Prof. Ph. Blanchard; |
| 6 - 10 November 2017 | ZiF Workshop: The Message of Quantum Science II; invited talk: Parametrization of degenerate density matrices. |