Kurt Mehlhorn#
| Membership Number: | 1715 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 Cofounder (together with Stefan Näher and Christian Uhrig) Algorithmic Solutions GmbH
- 1990 - present Director, Max-Planck-Institut for Computer Science in Saarbrücken
- 1975 - present Professor of Computer Science,Universität des Saarlandes
- 1974 - 1975 Research Associate at Universität des Saarlandes, Dept. of Computer Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Data structures
- Graph algorithms
- Computational geometry
- Parallel algorithms
- Implementation of algorithms
- Algorithm engineering
- Natural computation
- Software libraries
Honours and 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
- 2012 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
- 2012 Corresponding member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
- 2014 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
