Hans-Peter Seidel
Hans-Peter Seidel (born April 24, 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German professor of computer science and has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken since 1999 and winner of the 2003 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .
Career
After studying mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and a one-year stay at the University of California, Berkeley , Seidel received his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Tübingen in 1987. In 1989 he completed his habilitation in the field of computer science. This was followed by two years as an "Assistant Professor" at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 1992 he became holder of the newly created chair for graphic data processing in Erlangen-Nuremberg .
His research focus is on computer graphics, especially in the area of 3D models and their algorithms.
Honors
On the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, the new auditorium of the Chair for Computer Graphics in Erlangen was named after him. It is now called the “Hans-Peter-Seidel-Auditorium”.
He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2012 .
Web links
- Homepage
- Laudation on the occasion of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf; 14 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German National Academic Foundation: Annual Report 2017 , p. 87.
- ^ Directory of members: Hans-Peter Seidel. Academia Europaea, accessed on July 18, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seidel, Hans-Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor, computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |