Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 29.08.1949 | born in Ingolstadt, Germany |
| 1968-1971 | student of computer science and mathematics at TU München |
| 1971-1974 | student at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
| 1972 | married to former Ena Friedrichson, three children |
| 1974 | Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Cornell University, Dissertation ``Polynomial and Abstract Subrecursive Classes'' |
Employment and Scholarships
| 1971-1974 | Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 1973-1974 | Cornell University Fellowship |
| 1974-1975 | Research Associate at Universität des Saarlandes, Dept. of Computer Science |
| 1975-present | Professor of Computer Science,Universität des Saarlandes |
| 1990-present | Director, Max-Planck-Institut for Computer Science in Saarbrücken |
| 1995 | Cofounder (together with Stefan Näher and Christian Uhrig) Algorithmic Solutions GmbH |
Awards
| 1986 | Leibniz-Award, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| 1989 | Humboldt-Award for German-French Cooperation |
| 1994 | Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Award |
| 1995 | Member of Academia Europaea |
| 1995 | Konrad-Zuse-Medal |
| 1999 | Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery |
| 2001 | Member of Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2002 | Honorary Doctorate Degree, Otto-von-Guericke Universität |
| 2004 | Member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina |
| 2004 | Member of acatech, Konvent Technikwissenschaften |
| 2006 | Honorary Doctorate Degree, University of Waterloo, Canada, picture |
| 2008 | Honorary Doctorate Degree, Aarhus University,Denmark, announcement, pictures |
| 2010 | EATCS-Award |
| 2011 | ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award |
| 2012 | Korrespondierendes Mitglied, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2012 | Hari Sahasrabuddhe Lecture on Inflections in Computing |
| 2013 | Khwarizmi International Award |
Editorial Responsibilities
| 1981-1986 | Information Processing Letters |
| 1985-2001 | Algorithmica |
| 1985-2001 | Information and Computation |
| 1988-2001 | SIAM Journal of Computing |
| 1988-2001 | Journal of Discrete and Computational Geometry |
| 1990-2001 | International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications |
| 1990-present | Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, electronic submission, Editor in Chief |
| 1999-2001 | Computing |
| 2004-2013 | ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Editor |
| 2004-present | Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JJIAM), Member of Advisory Board |
| 2008-present | Mathematical Programming Computation, Member of Advisory Board |
| 2010-2013 | Journal of the ACM |
Other Responsibilities
| 1976-1978 | Chairman of Computer Science Department, Saarbrücken |
| 1987-1989 | Chairman of Computer Science Department, Saarbrücken |
| 1986-1988 | Speaker Sonderforschungsbereich 124, VLSI-Entwurfsmethoden und Parallelität |
| 1993-1999 | Member of the Senate, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German National Science Foundation) |
| 1993-2000 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) |
| 1993-1996 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Siemens Corporate Research |
| 1994-1997 | Prime Contractor, EU-Project ALCOM |
| 1995-1998 | Member of the Senate, Helmholtz Gesellschaft der Großforschungseinrichtungen (National Research Labs) |
| 1998-2000 | Prime Contractor, EU-Project GALIA |
| 1998-2004 | Member of Board of Trustees, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley |
| 2001 | International Review Panel, UK research in Computer Science, Report |
| 2001 | Review Committee, Computer Science Department, ETH Zürich |
| 2001-2002 | Vice Chairman, Chemisch-Physikalisch-Technische Sektion der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
| 2002 | Chairman, Review Committee, Computer Science Department, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 2002-2008 | Vice President, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
| 2002-2014 | Member of Senate, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
| 2005 | Review Committee, CWI, Amsterdam |
| 2006 | Review Committee, EPSRC ICT-Review |
| 2006-2012 | Board of Governors, Jacobs University Bremen |
| 2008-present | Principal Investigator, Cluster of Excellence, Multimodal Computing and Interaction |
| 2009-present | Joint Advisory Board, Carnegie Mellon, Qatar |
| 2009-present | Chairman, Scientific Board, IST Austria |
| 2010-present | Co-Director, Indo Max Planck Center for Computer Science (IMPECS) |
| 2011-present | Scientific Advisory Board, Simons Foundation |