Kurt Mehlhorn - 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
- 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
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-present 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
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
