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Inst. f. Computergraphik u.Alg. |
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Technische Univ. Wien
Favoritenstrasse 9 / 186
1040 Wien
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Austria |
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+43-1-58801-18655 |
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+43-1-58801-18698 |
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http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at |
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Werner Purgathofer is a full professor of computer science and head of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms at the Technische Universitaet Wien (Vienna University of Technology), responsible for research and education in computer graphics. He has been working in this field since 1980 when he started his academic life as a research assistant, during which he received a Ph.D. in 1984 from TU Vienna. In 1981 and 1986 he received "best paper awards" at the Eurographics annual conferences. He has written a German language textbook on computer graphics and coedited several other books. Purgathofer has organised the very successful 1991 and 2006 Eurographics annual conferences in Vienna. His current activities concentrate on rendering algorithms, color, and visualization. He is the president and scientific director of the VRVis research center for virtual reality and visualisation in Vienna (
www.vrvis.at), which he founded in 2000. In 2001 he became vice-chair of the Commission for Scientific Visualisation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Purgathofer has been a member of Eurographics since 1981 and is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, CGS, GI and several Austrian associations. Serving in the Executive Committee of Eurographics from 1988 until 2006, he was Publications Board Chairman from 1993 to 2000, and he became a fellow of the association in 1997. Together with Werner Hansmann, Francois Sillion and Dieter Fellner he is currently co-editor of the Eurographics Proceedings Series.In 2006 he received the Distinguished Career Award from Eurographics and in 2010 he received a Doctor honoris causa from the Technical University of Iasi. Since 2010 he is vice-chair of the Eurographics Association and chair of its Conference Steering Committee.
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