Dieter W. Fellner#
Membership Number: | 2697 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | INFORMATICS |
Elected: | 2009 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http:/www.igd.fhg.de/igd-a0/staff/fellner/index.html.en http://www.gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/home/members/fellner/index.en.htm http://www.cgv.tugraz.at/fellner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Professor of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics (IGD)
- 2005 - present Professor of Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology, Austria, and Founding Director of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization
- Feb. 2003 - Jan. 2005 Member of the Senate of the University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany
- April 2001 - Jan 2003 Dean, Faculty of Math and Computer Science, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany
- May 1998 - 2005: Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Computer Graphics, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany
- June 1992 - April 1998 Professor of Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany
- Oct. 1989 - June 1992 Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, MUN
- June 1989 Promotion to Associate Professor and tenure at the University of Technology Graz, Austria
- 1985 - May 1989 Assistant professor and head of software and graphics group at the Institutes for Information Processing IIG, University of Technology Graz, Austria
- May 1983 - Nov. 1984 Director of software development at MUPID Computer Company and responsible for the software know-how transfer from the IIG to that company
- 1981 - 1983 Assistant professor at the Institutes for Information Processing IIG, University of Technology Graz, Austria.
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer graphics
- Graphics systems
- Computational geometry and object modeling
- Three-dimensional graphics and realism
- User interfaces
- Digital libraries
- Cultural heritage
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Fellow of the Eurographics Association
- 2007 Member of the IST Advisory Group for the Europ. Commission (ISTAG)
- Best Technical Paper Award (Günther Enderle Award) at Eurographics’98 Conference
- 2019 Honorary Doctorate, University of Rostock