Biografie

Matthias Otto is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany. He was born in Dresden (Germany) and did all his studies at the University of Leipzig including his doctoral thesis and habilitation under the supervision of Helmut Müller and Gerhard Werner. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Graz University of Technology (Austria) with W. Wegscheider and at UWIST, Cardiff (UK), with J. D. R. Thomas. In 1984 he moved to Freiberg (Germany) as a reader and was appointed full Professor there in 1987. Since that time he has taught almost all aspects of Analytical Chemistry mainly within the curricula of chemistry, applied sciences and geoecology and organizes courses in basic and advanced chemometrics.