Leif Kobbelt#
| Membership Number: | 4130 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.graphics.rwth-aachen.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2001 Full Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Visual Computing Institute, RWTH Aachen University
- 1999 -2000 Associate Professor Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken
- 1996 -1999 Assistant Professor University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1995 -1996 Post-Doc, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer graphics
- Geometry processing
- Computer aided (geometric) design
- Interactive geometric modeling
- Computer vision
- Subdivision surfaces
- Multiresolution modeling
- Polygon mesh generation & optimization
- Point-based graphics
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award (DFG)
- 2013 ERC Advanced Grant ("ACROSS: 3D Reconstruction and Modeling ACROSS Different Levels of Abstraction")
- 2013 named a "Distinguished Professor" at RWTH Aachen University
- 2009 Matheon Guest Professor 2009 (Matheon, Berlin)
- 2008 named a Eurographics Fellow
- 2005 and 2006 Two ACM Recognition of Service Awards
- 2004 Outstanding Technical Contribution Award (Eurographics Association)
- 2000 Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Award (Federal Ministry for Education and Research / DFG)
- 1995 Postdoc scholarship, DAAD
- 1994 Award of the Förderverein „Forschungszentrum Informatik“ (best diploma exam and thesis of the year)
- 1993 Accepted to the National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
