Curriculum Vitae of Kurt Mehlhorn Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn

Curriculum Vitae

Education

29.8.1949       born in Ingolstadt, Germany

1968-1971 student of computer science and mathematics at TU München

1971-1974 student at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

1972 married to former Ena Friedrichson, three children

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


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

1999-2001 Computing

2004-present ACM Transactions on Algorithms

2004-present Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JJIAM)


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- 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 - Vice President, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft



Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Algorithms and Complexity Group (AG1)
Im Stadtwald
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany