Thomas Henzinger

Thomas A. Henzinger (born December 8, 1962 in Linz ) is an Austrian computer scientist . He is the first President of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria .

Life

Henzinger completed his computer science studies at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in July 1987 , after having obtained an MS degree from the University of Delaware in 1986 . In 1991 he received his PhD from Stanford University .

After a stay at the University of Grenoble , he was an assistant professor at Cornell University from 1992-1996 . 1996-2005 he was at UC Berkeley and rose there to full professor. 1999–2000 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken.

From 2004 to 2009 he was Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Lausanne ( Switzerland ) and from 2004 to 2011 Adjunct Professor for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

In December 2008 he was appointed the first President of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria . He took up this post on September 1, 2009.

Thomas Henzinger is married to Monika Henzinger and has three children.

Prizes and awards

Henzinger was awarded the following prizes / honors:

• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2005)
• Fellow of ACM and IEEE (2006)
• Member of the Academia Europaea (2006)
• ERC Advanced Grant (2010)
• Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2011)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Joseph Fourier Grenoble I (2012)
• Wittgenstein Prize (2012)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013)
• Milner Award from the Royal Society (2015)
• EATCS Award (2019)
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Henzinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at IST Austria
• Henzinger Group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Computer scientist Thomas Henzinger becomes first boss. In: derStandard.at. December 4, 2008, accessed December 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ http://science.orf.at/science/news/153604  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ science.orf.at: IST Austria President took office ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Curriculum Vitae - Thomas A. Henzinger ( English , PDF; 282 kB) Accessed June 12, 2012.
5. ↑ Member entry by Thomas Henzinger (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 14, 2016.
6. ↑ Fellows of the AAAS: Thomas Henzinger. (No longer available online.) American Association for the Advancement of Science, archived from the original on January 27, 2018 ; accessed on January 27, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
7. ↑ orf.at - Computer Science Prize for IST boss . Article dated July 20, 2015, accessed July 20, 2015.
8. ↑ Royal Society Milner Award ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 20, 2015.