Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Dr.h.c. Werner Purgathofer TU Wien Favoritenstrasse 9/186 A-1040 Vienna / Austria July 2017 [email protected] http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at CURRICULUM VITAE - Born on 27 October, 1955, in Vienna (Wien), Austria - Primary school from 1961 until 1966 - Secondary and high school from 1966 until 1974 Naturwissenschaftliches Realgymnasium BRG 19, Wien 19, Krottenbachstraße 11 - Final examination („Matura“) in June 1974 with distinction - Study: Technical Mathematics, branch Information and Data Processing, from 1974 until 1980, TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13 - Work contract with Philips from October 1979 until July 1980 - Graduation to a Dipl.-Ing. in June 1980 from TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13 (equivalent to a Master-degree) - Research Assistant at TU Wien supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Barth from 1 August, 1980, until 31 August, 1982 - University Assistant at TU Wien in the group of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Barth from 1 September, 1982, until 31 October, 1988 - Graduation to a Doktor der Technischen Wissenschaften (PhD) from TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13 in June 1984 - Habilitation to receive the degree Universitäts-Dozent in the field "Practical Informatics", TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13, in June 1987 - Appointment as a University Professor for practical informatics at TU Wien on 1 November, 1988 - Chairman of the Fachgruppe Informatik (Department of Informatics) at the TU Wien from 1 October, 1991, until 31 December, 1998 - Guest Professor at the Technical University of Budapest, from February to June 1997 - Head of the Institute of Computer Graphics at the Vienna University of Technology since January 1999 (renamed in 2001: Inst. of Computer Graphics and Algorithms) - Member of the Commission for Scientific Visualization of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since March 1999 (Deputy chair since 2001) - Co-founder and president of the Competence Center for Virtual Reality and Visualisation VRVis, sponsored by the Austrian Kplus-program, Wien, 2000-2007 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences since April 2003 - Chair of the Council of the Faculty of Informatics (Fakultätsrat) at the Vienna University of Technology from January 2004 until December 2015 - Distinguished Career Award of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, in September 2006 - Scientific Director of the Competence Center for Virtual Reality & Visualisation VRVis starting 1 January, 2008 - Main investigator and president of the Competence Center VRVis, sponsored by the Austrian COMET-K1-program, Wien, starting in January 2010 (continuation of the Kplus-center founded in 2000) - Vice-Chairman of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, from January 2010 until December 2012 - Doctor honaris causa received from the Technical University of Iaşi (Romania) in October 2010 - Chairman of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, from January 2013 until December 2014 - Main investigator and president of the Competence Center VRVis, sponsored by the Austrian COMET-K1-program, Wien, starting in January 2017 (continuation of the Kplus-center founded in 2000 and K1-center funded in 2010) - Recipient of the Eurographics Gold medal in May 2017 - main interests: Rendering, Virtual Reality, Color, Visualization - more than 150 refereed publications and over 100 talks since 1981 - 30 graduated PhD students since 1992 - IPC member of over 150 conferences and journals since 1986 - Expertises for 15 international Funding Agencies and 32 other Universities .