Olaf Kübler (physicist)
Olaf Kübler (born April 5, 1944 in Berlin ) is a German physicist. He was a professor and president of the ETH Zurich .
Kübler studied physics from 1962 at the TH Karlsruhe and theoretical physics at the ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1967. From 1965 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. He then went to Heidelberg University , where he received his doctorate in 1970 (on the determination of moments of inertia from projected wave functions). From 1972 he was research assistant at the Institute for Cell Biology at the ETH Zurich and in 1978 he completed his habilitation there on digital image processing in electron microscopy, which he introduced there. In 1979 he was visiting scholar at the University of Arizona in Tucson and from 1979 professor for image science in the faculty of electrical engineering at ETH Zurich. From 1987 to 1995 he headed the Swiss National Research Program for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. In 1996/97 he was Vice President for Research at the ETH Zurich and from 1997 to 2005 President of the ETH. In 2006 he retired.
He deals with digital image processing with applications in medical diagnostics, robotics, remote sensing and structural biology.
Among other things, he was a visiting scientist in the robotics group at the INRIA research center in Sophia-Antipolis near Nice (1990 and 1993 as visiting professor), at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1991) and at the EPFL in Lausanne (1996), where he served as president at the ETH Zurich.
From 1997 to 2003 he was on the scientific advisory board of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and its chairman from 2000 to 2003. From 2001 to 2007 he was on the Board of Directors of Siemens Switzerland and he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch AG (2007). From 2002 to 2007 he was a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society . He was on the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore and the Institute for Science and Technology (IST-Austria), whose Scientific Board of Directors he headed from 2006 to 2009. He was also on the council of the University of Stuttgart and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
From 1990 to 1993 he was co-editor of Pattern Recognition.
He is married to Gunhild Kübler .
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| SURNAME | Kübler, Olaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |