Hans-Peter Seidel (born 24 April 1958, in

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) is a computer graphics researcher at the

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and

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Education and career

Hans-Peter Seidel earned his doctorate degree in mathematics at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

in 1987, under the supervision of Rainer Löwen; his dissertation was entitled "Symmetrische Strukturen und Zentralkollineationen auf topologischen Ebenen". In 1989, still at Tübingen University, he earned a

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degree in computer science. Since 1999, he has been a director at the

and a professor at

. Prior to his position at Max Planck Institute, he was a member of a faculty at the

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from 1992 to 1999.

Awards

In 2003, Seidel was the first computer graphics researcher to win the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

and in 2017, the European Association for Computer Graphics had awarded him with the Europhysics Medal "for his outstanding scientific contributions to computer graphics and geometric modelling, for his academic achievements as a scholar and mentor, and for his leadership in developing the Eurographics Association."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seidel, Hans-Peter 1958 births Living people Computer graphics researchers University of Tübingen alumni Academic staff of Saarland University Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Scientists from Stuttgart Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Max Planck Institute directors