Dieter Fellner - Curriculum Vitae#

Born: Dezember 22, 1958 in Austria

Dieter Fellner is a professor of computer science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics (IGD) at the same location. Previously he has held academic positions at the Graz University of Technology, Austria, the University of Technology in Braunschweig, Germany, the University of Bonn, Germany, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and the University of Denver, Colorado. He is still affiliated with the Graz University of Technology where he chairs the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization he founded in 2005.

After his studies of Technical Mathematics in Graz (Diploma 1981, Doktorate 1984, Habilitation 1988) his career started in the MUPID development team (1982), where he was responsible for the decoder-based videotex graphics editing system. Dieter Fellner's research activities over the last years covered algorithms and software architectures to integrate modeling and rendering, efficient rendering and visualization algorithms, generative and reconstructive modeling, virtual and augmented reality, graphical aspects of internet-based multimedia information systems and digital libraries. In the latter field he has coordinated a strategic initiative funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) from 1997 till 2005 which financed approx. 50 researchers per year in 21 research groups.

Dieter Fellner is the author of more than 130 publications including the German long-time standard book on computer graphics (1988, 2nd ed. 1992) and together with A. Endres a book on digital libraries (2000). In the areas of computer graphics and digital libraries Dieter Fellner is a member of the editorial boards of leading journals (Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (IEEE CG&A), The Visual Computer, Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), ACM Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), Journal on Digital Libraries) and a member of the program committees of many international conferences and workshops (Eurographics Conference, Intl. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), Intl. Symposium on Geometry Processing, Pacific Graphics Conf, VAST (Virtual Reality, Archeology and Cultural Heritage) Conf, ACM Web3D, Joint Conf on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Europ. Conf on Digital Libraries (ECDL)).

He is a member of EUROGRAPHICS where he serves in the Executive Committee, ACM, IEEE Computer Society and the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) where he serves as Chairman of the Graphics Chapter (Fachbereich Graphische Datenverarbeitung) and, since 2009, as Member of the Board of Directors (Erweiterter Vorstand).

Furthermore, D. Fellner is an advisor for the German Scientific Council, the German Research Foundation DFG (among several other roles he is also elected member of the Board for Scientific Information (AWBI)), and the European Commission (as a member of ISTAG).