Volker Mehrmann received a Diplomain mathematics in 1979, his Ph.D. in 1982 and his habilitation in 1987 from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He spent research years at Kent State University 1979-1980, University of Wisconsin 1984-1985, IBM Research Center Heidelberg 1988-1989.

After spending two years 1990-1992 as visiting full professor at the RWTH Aachen he was a full professor at TU Chemnitz from 1993 to 2000. Since then he is a full professor at TU Berlin. His research interests are in the areas of numerical mathematics/scientific computing, applied and numerical linear algebra, control theory as well as differential algebraic equations.