Herbert Edelsbrunner#
| Email: | edels 'at' ist.ac.at |
| Membership Number: | 2683 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Username: | hedelsbrunner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009- : Professor at Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- 1999- : Arts and Sciences Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
- 2001- : Professor of Mathematics, Duke University
- 1996- : Founder and Director of Geomagic, Inc.
- 1990-99: Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1987-90: Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1985-87: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1981-85: Assistent at the Institute for Information Processing, Graz University of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Algorithms
- Data Structures
- Computational Geometry
- Computational Topology
- Geometric Modeling
- Structural Molecular Biology
Honours and Awards
- 2009: Member of Academia Europaea
- 2008: Member of the German Academy of Science (Leopoldina)
- 2007: Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Duke University
- 2006: Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h. c.) from the Graz Univ. of Technology
- 2005: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1999: Sir Edward Youde Memorial Visiting Professorship, Hong Kong Univ. of Technology
- 1997: Beckman Fellow in Center of Advanced Study, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1992: Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1991: Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation of the USA
- 1990: University Scholar Award, University of Illinois Foundation
- 1989: Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research
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