Prof. em. Dr. Emo Welzl

Emo Welzl has been Full Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of the ETH Zurich since April 1996. His research interests are in foundations of computer science, mainly combinatorial algorithms, in particular computational geometry and applications, combinatorial models for optimization, analysis of geometric structures, randomized methods, and discrete geometry.

Born August 4, 1958, in Linz, Austria. 1977-1981 Diplom in Applied Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology, Austria. 1983 Ph.D. (supervisor Hermann Maurer) with a topic in formal languages, 1988 habilitation in Foundations of Computer Science, also in Graz.

1984 one-year post-doc at Rijks University Leiden, Netherlands, 1985 visiting professor at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA, for one semester. 1987-1996 Full Professor of Mathematics (theory of computation) at Free University of Berlin. 1994 four-month research stay at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA. 1991-1996 speaker of the graduate program "Computational Discrete Mathematics" at Free University, Humboldt University, University of Technology, and the Konrad Zuse Center in Berlin. 2000-2005 speaker (at site Zurich) of the European Graduate Program in "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation".

1992 Max Planck-Prize with Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University); 1995 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize; 1998 Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery; 2005 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; 2006 Member of the Academia Europaea; 2007 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.