Hans-Peter Seidel

Hans-Peter Seidel, born on 24 April 1958 in Stuttgart, West Germany, is a German computer graphics researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and Saarland University. He earned his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Tubingen in 1987 under Rainer Lowen, with a dissertation on symmetric structures and central collineations on topological planes, and a habilitation in computer science there in 1989. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Erlangen from 1992 to 1999, and since 1999 he has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and a professor at Saarland University. In 2003 he was the first computer graphics researcher to win the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, and in 2017 the European Association for Computer Graphics awarded him a medal for his outstanding scientific contributions to computer graphics and geometric modelling and for his leadership in developing the Eurographics Association.