Herbert Edelsbrunner#
| Membership Number: | 2683 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ist.ac.at/research/research-groups/edelsbrunner-group/?0= |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Professor at Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- Since 1999 Arts and Sciences Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
- Since 2001 Professor of Mathematics, Duke University
- Since 1996 Founder and Director of Geomagic, Inc.
- 1990 - 1999 Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1987 - 1990 Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1985 -1987 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1981 - 1985 Assistent at the Institute for Information Processing, Graz University of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Computational geometry
- Computational topology
- Geometric modeling
- Structural molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2008 Member of the German Academy of Science (Leopoldina)
- 2007 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Duke University
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h. c.) from the Graz Univ. of Technology
- 2005 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1999 Sir Edward Youde Memorial Visiting Professorship, Hong Kong Univ. of Technology
- 1997 Beckman Fellow in Center of Advanced Study, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1992 Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1991 Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation of the USA
- 1990 University Scholar Award, University of Illinois Foundation
- 1989 Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research
