Herbert Edelsbrunner

Herbert Edelsbrunner (b. 1958) studied Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology and received his PhD in 1982. After a three-year employment at the Graz University of Technology, he joined the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he worked as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. At Duke University, Durham, Edelsbrunner became Professor for Computer Science in 1999 and Professor for Mathematics in 2004. Herbert Edelsbrunner, whose research focuses on Computational Geometry and Topology, was appointed Professor at IST Austria in 2009.