Marc Alexa Explained

Marc Alexa
Thesis Title:Shape Spaces from Morphing
Thesis Url:http://d-nb.info/96451463X
Doctoral Advisor:José Luis Encarnação
Alma Mater:TU Darmstadt (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Field:Computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing
Birth Place:Darmstadt, Germany
Birth Date:1 February 1974
Thesis Year:2002
Notable Students:Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Marc Alexa is a professor of computer science at TU Berlin working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing.

Life

Alexa studied computer science at TU Darmstadt, receiving a Diplom in 1997 and a PhD in 2002. After his graduation, he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher with Greg Turk at Georgia Tech, returning the same year to become assistant professor at TU Darmstadt. In 2005, he became an associate professor for computer graphics at TU Berlin, transitioning to the full professorship in 2010.[1] He conducted research at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research, ETH Zurich, and the University of Toronto. From 2018 to 2021, he was the editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics.

Awards

Alexa received numerous best paper awards at conferences, in particular the Symposium on Geometry Processing.[2] Other noteworthy distinctions:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marc Alexa CV.
  2. Web site: Symposium on Geometry Processing – Awards. awards.geometryprocessing.org.
  3. Web site: MATH+ Member Marc Alexa Received ERC Advanced Grant . MATH+. 2022-05-16.
  4. Web site: Fellows – Eurographics.
  5. Web site: Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2014 – Marc Alexa. Eurographics. 2022-05-16.
  6. Web site: Engineering Science Prize of the Academy – Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. www.bbaw.de.
  7. Web site: Expressive Shape: Intuitive Creative and Optimization of 3D Geometry (XShape) . European Research Council. 2021-10-20.
  8. Web site: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2003. www.dfg.de.