During EUROGRAPHICS 2009 two new Fellows were elected. The new Fellows are Eduard Gröller and Nigel John. The full text of the announcement that will appear in Computer Graphics Forum is available here. Congratulations to them both!
- Eduard Gröller for his broad and high-quality research in visualization and for building up one of the strongest visualization groups in Europe; his leadership in the visualization community as Symposium Co-chair of Eurographics/IEEE VisSym 1999, as member of the steering committee of the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization since 2002, as Papers Co-chair of the IEEE Visualization Conference 2005 and 2006, as organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization 2005 and 2009, and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics (2003-2007); his contributions to the Eurographics conferences as coauthor of seven papers, as Program Co-chair in 2006, as Monitoring Officer for EG 2010 and as Conference Co-chair for EG 2011; his contribution to Eurographics as member of the Executive Committee and as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Graphics Forum.
- Nigel John for his research contributions to the field of medical graphics; his contributions to Eurographics conferences, including his roles as co-chair of the EG 2001 and EG 2008 events and national UK chapter events; his promotion of VRML/X3D in the medical graphics community and his engagement in the medical graphics theme of the Web3D Symposium; his contribution to the Eurographics Association through participation in the Executive Committee and chairmanship of the Professional Board.
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