Thomas Strothotte

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Thomas Strothotte is the Rector of the University of Rostock.

Strothotte was born in 1959 in Regina, Canada and raised in Vancouver. His first degrees were taken at Simon Fraser University (a B.Sc. in Physics (1980) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1981)). His further graduate work was done in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, McGill University in Montreal/Quebec and the University of Waterloo/Ontario, leading to a Ph.D. in 1984.

After a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at INRIA Rocquencourt near Paris, he went to the University of Stuttgart as an Assistant Professor in 1985, earning a D.Sc. (habil) degree in Computer Science in 1989. From 1989 to 1990 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg, working in the Software Ergonomics Department. From there he went to the Free University of Berlin in 1990 as a Professor of Computer Science.

He moved on to the University of Magdeburg in Germany in 1993, where he was the head of the Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems Laboratory. He was the Dean of his Faculty from 1994 to 1996. From April, 1996 until September, 1998 he was a Vice-President/Academic Planning and Budget Development of the University, from July until September, 1998 he was also President pro tem of the University. He was also the initiator and one of the scientific responsibles for the new degree programme in Computational Visualistics.

From March, 2001 to December 2005 he served as the Director of IT for the government of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.

His daughter Josephine was born on November 8th, 1995, his son George on November 17, 2000.

In July of 2006, he was elected as the new Rector of the University of Rostock.

He took office formally on October , 2006.