Hans-Peter Seidel

Hans -Peter Seidel ( born April 24, 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German professor of computer science and since 1999 director of the Max Planck Institute for computer science in Saarbrücken and support of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2003.

After studying mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen and a year at the University of California, Berkeley, received his doctorate in 1987 Seidel in mathematics at the University of Tübingen. In 1989 he completed his habilitation in the field of computer science. It was followed by two years as " Assistant Professor " at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was owner of the newly created Department of Computer Graphics in Erlangen- Nuremberg in 1992.

His research focuses on computer graphics, particularly in the area of 3D models and their algorithms.

On the occasion of his fiftieth birthday of the new auditorium of the Institute for Computer Graphics in Erlangen was named after him. It is now called " Hans -Peter Seidel Auditorium ".