Curriculum Vitae
Education
29.8.1949 born in Ingolstadt, Germany1968-1971 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)
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, Saarbrücken1987-1989 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