Hans-Christian Hege

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Hans-Christian Hege (born May 7, 1954 in Deutschhof , Kapellen-Drusweiler , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German physicist and computer scientist .

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Hans-Christian Hege studied between 1977 and 1984 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation with a major in physics and a minor in mathematics and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . From 1984 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Theory of Elementary Particles there and worked in the field of quantum field theory , in particular for the computer simulation of lattice scale theories . In 1986 he founded the company Mental Images together with the physicists Rolf Herken and Wolfgang Krüger, the computer scientist Robert Hödicke and three investors and worked there as a senior scientist in software development until 1989.

Hege has been working as a scientist at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) since 1989 , initially in high-performance computing and computer physics . In 1991 he founded a department for parallel computing and visualization (today: "Visual Data Analysis"), which he formed into an internationally visible research facility for data visualization . Among other things, the Amira visualization program was created there . His research relates to fundamental issues, such as the visualization of vector fields , the visualization of uncertainties in data, or the geometric reconstruction of anatomical objects from data from imaging processes . Furthermore, he deals with a variety of application-oriented issues of data visualization.

Applications of his work can be found in natural sciences (including quantum chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, neurobiology, materials science and astrophysics), in medicine (especially therapy planning in oncology, angiology and orthopedics), engineering (medical technology, fluid mechanics), and environmental sciences (landscape planning , Meteorology and climatology) and archeology .

Hege is a co-founder of other companies with business fields in the field of computer-based visualization (1999: Indeed - Visual Concepts GmbH, today part of Visage Imaging GmbH; 2005: Lenné3D GmbH).

He is a founding member of the DFG research center MATHEON , the research association ECMath of the Einstein Foundation Berlin and the excellence cluster MATH + . He teaches at various universities and is co-editor of the book series Mathematics and Visualization and the film series VideoMath at the Wissenschaftsverlag Springer as well as several monographs on the subject of scientific visualization.

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  • (Ed. with Konrad Polthier) Visualization and Mathematics - Experiments, Simulations and Environments , Springer Verlag, 1997
  • (Ed. with Konrad Polthier) Mathematical Visualization - Algorithms, Applications and Numerics , Springer Verlag, 1998
  • (Ed. with Konrad Polthier) Visualization and Mathematics III , Springer Verlag, 2003
  • (Ed. with Raghu Machiraju) Volume Graphics 2007 , AK Peters, Wellesley, MA, USA, 2007
  • (Ed. with David Laidlaw, Renato Pajarola and Oliver Staadt) Volume and Point-Based Graphics 2008 , Eurographics Association, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland, 2008
  • (Ed. with Konrad Polthier, Gerik Scheuermann) Topology-Based Methods in Visualization II , Springer Verlag 2009
  • (Ed. with Lars Linsen, Hans Hagen and Bernd Hamann) Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences II , Springer Verlag 2012
  • (Ed. with Lars Linsen and Bernd Hamann) Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences III , Springer Verlag 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mental Images company (English)
  2. ↑ http://www.zib.de/visual
  3. ↑ Software Amira (English)
  4. ^ Mathematics and Visualization
  5. ↑ VideoMath
personal data
SURNAME Hege, Hans-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Deutschhof, Kapellen-Drusweiler , Rhineland-Palatinate