Dietmar Saupe

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Dietmar Saupe (* 1954 in Bremen ) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Konstanz . Saupe researches dynamic systems, computer graphics and experimental mathematics. Saupe's research in the field of computer graphics examines, among other things, digital image processing in medical applications. Saupe was particularly well-known as a researcher on fractals and as the author of numerous books in this field. His book Chaos and Fractals received the American Publisher's Association's Best Math Book Award in 1992.

Saupe studied mathematics from 1973 to 1979 at the Universities of Stuttgart and Bremen and then worked as a research assistant in the field of dynamic systems at the University of Bremen, where he received his doctorate in 1982. His doctoral supervisor was Heinz-Otto Peitgen . After a research stay at the University of California in Santa Cruz from 1985 to 1987 , he was assistant professor in Bremen until 1993, where he subsequently completed his habilitation. From 1993 to 1998 he was full professor for computer science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and from 1998 to 2002 at the University of Leipzig . Since 2002 he has been working in the same position for the University of Konstanz.

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In private, Dietmar Saupe is also a cross-dresser with the name Liliane .

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