Personal details:
Born: March 28, 1961, Northallerton, England.
Childhood: Grew up in Porsgrunn and Skien, Norway.
Wife: Married to Antonella Zanna, July 31, 1997 in Molfetta, Italy.
Children: Sondre (1988), Njål (1991), Arne Giacomo (2000). Aurora (2004).

Degrees:
1986    Sivilingeniør in Mathematics, NTNU, Trondheim.
1989    Dr. Ingeniør in Mathematics, NTNU, Trondheim.

Honors and Awards:
1986-89  Jubilee scholar NTNU (received 1 of three scholarships for the 75’th anniversary of NTNU).
1990      Exxon Mobil Research award for best Ph.D. thesis in basic research at NTNU in 1989.
1996       Carl-Erik Fröberg Prize in Numerical Math. for Lie-Butcher theory for Runge-Kutta methods.

Professional Experience:
2005-present Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Bergen.
1997-2005     Professor, Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen.
1991-1997     Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Univ. of Bergen.
1996-2000     Adjunct Professor (Prof. II) in Mathematics at NTNU, Trondheim.
1990-1995     Consulting Scientist, SINTEF Industrial Mathematics, Trondheim.
1988-1990     Research Scientist, SINTEF Industrial Mathematics, Trondheim.

Appointments in the research community:
2018 - 2022 Chair of the International Abel Prize Committee
2017- Managing Editor Journal Foundations of Computational Mathematics
2016-  Elected President of Scientific Council CIMPA
2016-lifetime Elected member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters   
2005-2011 Secretary for Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM).
2007-lifetime Elected member of The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
2010-2018     Abel Prize board member
2005-present Member of FoCM board of Directors
2012-lifetime Elected member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters

Teaching: He has lectured a variety of courses in Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Bergen and NTNU since 1989, and has been giving lecture series (research schools) in Beijing, Uppsala University, AIMS Cape Town, CIME Italy, CIMPA Brazil.

Supervised PhDs:
Arne Marthinsen (1999) (with B. Owren), Kenth Engø (2000), Stein Krogstad (2003),
Borislav Minchev (2004), Johan Lie (2007) (with X-C. Tai), Oddvar Christiansen (2008) (with X-C. Tai), Alexander Lundervold (2011) (with K. Ebrahimi-Fard), Ferenc Bartha (2013) (with W. Tucker),
Current Students: Morten Nome (with T. Sørevik), Kristoffer Føllesdal (with O. Verdier).

Research, papers, preprints and recent talks:
http://hans.munthe-kaas.no/work/Research.html