Emo Welzl#
| Membership Number: | 2374 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/emo |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 Full Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of the ETH Zurich
- 2000 - 2005 chair (at site Zurich) of the Berlin-Zurich Graduate Program in "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation"
- 1991 - 1996 chair of the graduate program "Algorithmic Discrete Mathematics" at Free University, Humboldt University, University of Technology, and the Konrad Zuse Center in Berlin
- 1994 four-month research stay at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
- 1987 - 1996 Full Professor of Mathematics (theory of computation) at Free University of Berlin
- 1985 visiting professor at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA, for one semester
- 1984 one-year post-doc at Rijks University Leiden, Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Foundations of computer science
- Computational geometry and applications
- Combinatorial models for optimization
- Algorithms and data structures
- Randomized methods
- Analysis of geometric structures
- Discrete geometry
- Satisfiability
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Max Planck Prize with Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University)
- 1995 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize
- 1998 Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
- 2005 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Sektion Informationswissenschaften)
- 2006 Member of the Academia Europaea (Section Informatics)
- 2007 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse).
