Hans-Peter Seidel

Hans-Peter Seidel is a computer graphics researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and Saarland University.[1] In 2003, Seidel was the first computer graphics researcher to win the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.[2]

Hans-Peter Seidel earned his doctorate degree in Mathematics at Tübingen University in 1987, under the supervision of Rainer Löwen; his dissertation was entitled Symmetrische Strukturen und Zentralkollineationen auf topologischen Ebenen.[3] In 1989, still at Tübingen University, he earned a habilitation degree in computer science. Since 1999, he has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and a professor at Saarland University.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~hpseidel/
  2. ↑ http://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2003/seidel/index.html
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Seidel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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