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Otmar Scherzer

Otmar Scherzer

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Mathematics
Austria
2026
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Engineering and Technology
Austria
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
55
Citations
12003
World Ranking
788
National Ranking
10

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
54
Citations
11960
World Ranking
3159
National Ranking
11

Otmar Scherzer publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Otmar Scherzer sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 283 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Otmar Scherzer D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Otmar Scherzer sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mathematics in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Otmar Scherzer is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their primary research focus lies within the broad field of Engineering, with significant contributions to several specialized subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Mathematical Physics, Geophysics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics addressed in Scherzer's research encompass a range of computational and imaging techniques, notably numerical methods in inverse problems, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging, sparse and compressive sensing techniques, advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, seismic waves and analysis, and neural networks and their applications.

Scherzer's publication record includes papers in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Inverse Problems
  • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  • European Mathematical Society Magazine
  • Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems

Several recent papers illustrate the breadth of Scherzer's work:

  • "Data driven regularization by projection," 2020, published in Inverse Problems
  • "Fourier reconstruction for diffraction tomography of an object rotated into arbitrary orientations," 2021, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Adjoint-state method for Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin discretization, application to the inverse acoustic wave problem," 2020, published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • "On convergence rates of adaptive ensemble Kalman inversion for linear ill-posed problems," 2022, published in Numerische Mathematik
  • "Motion reconstruction for optical tomography of trapped objects," 2020, published in Inverse Problems

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Scherzer include:

  • Clemens Kirisits
  • Florian Faucher
  • Leon Frischauf
  • Fabian Parzer
  • Andrea Aspri

This network indicates ongoing collaborative research across various topics related to inverse problems and imaging techniques.

Best Publications

  • Iterative regularization methods for nonlinear ill-posed problems

    Barbara Kaltenbacher;Andreas Neubauer;Otmar Scherzer

  • A convergence analysis of the Landweber iteration for nonlinear ill-posed problems

    Martin Hanke;Andreas Neubauer;Otmar Scherzer

  • Variational Methods in Imaging

    Otmar Scherzer;Markus Grasmair;Harald Grossauer;Markus Haltmeier

  • A convergence rates result for Tikhonov regularization in Banach spaces with non-smooth operators

    B Hofmann;B Kaltenbacher;C Pöschl;O Scherzer

  • Handbook of mathematical methods in imaging

    Otmar Scherzer

  • On convergence rates for the Iteratively regularized Gauss-Newton method

    Barbara Blaschke;Andreas Neubauer;Otmar Scherzer

  • Inverse Problems Light: Numerical Differentiation

    Martin Hanke;Otmar Scherzer

  • Sparse Regularization with l q Penalty Term

    Markus Grasmair;Markus Haltmeier;Otmar Scherzer

  • Convergence Criteria of Iterative Methods Based on Landweber Iteration for Solving Nonlinear Problems

    O. Scherzer

  • Optimal a posteriori parameter choice for Tikhonov regularization for solving nonlinear ill-posed problems

    O. Scherzer;H. W. Engl;K. Kunisch

  • Relations Between Regularization and Diffusion Filtering

    Otmar Scherzer;Joachim Weickert

  • The use of Morozov's discrepancy principle for Tikhonov regularization for solving nonlinear ill-posed problems

    Otmar Scherzer

  • Thermoacoustic tomography with integrating area and line detectors

    P. Burgholzer;C. Hofer;G. Paltauf;M. Haltmeier

  • Thermoacoustic computed tomography with large planar receivers

    M Haltmeier;O Scherzer;P Burgholzer;G Paltauf

  • Filtered backprojection for thermoacoustic computed tomography in spherical geometry

    Markus Haltmeier;Thomas Schuster;Otmar Scherzer

  • A convergence analysis of iterative methods for the solution of nonlinear ill-posed problems under affinely invariant conditions

    Peter Deuflhard;Heinz W Engl;Otmar Scherzer

  • Necessary and sufficient conditions for linear convergence of ℓ1-regularization

    M. Grasmaier;M. Haltmeier;O. Scherzer

  • Factors influencing the ill-posedness of nonlinear problems

    B Hofmann;O Scherzer

  • Denoising with higher order derivatives of bounded variation and an application to parameter estimation

    O. Scherzer

  • Error estimates for non-quadratic regularization and the relation to enhancement

    Elena Resmerita;Otmar Scherzer

  • Weakly Differentiable Functions

    Otmar Scherzer;Markus Grasmair;Harald Grossauer;Markus Haltmeier

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Haltmeier
Markus Haltmeier University of Innsbruck
Maarten V. de Hoop
Maarten V. de Hoop Rice University
Barbara Kaltenbacher
Barbara Kaltenbacher University of Klagenfurt
Ian Frigaard
Ian Frigaard University of British Columbia
Bert Jüttler
Bert Jüttler Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Heinz W. Engl
Heinz W. Engl University of Vienna
Martin Hanke
Martin Hanke Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Joachim Weickert
Joachim Weickert Saarland University
Adrian Constantin
Adrian Constantin University of Vienna
Ulrich Ansorge
Ulrich Ansorge University of Vienna

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