Joachim Weickert

Joachim Weickert (born 15 March 1965 in Ludwigshafen) is a German professor of mathematics and computer science at Saarland University. In 2010, Weickert was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work in image processing.^[1][2]

Weickert did his undergraduate studies at the University of Kaiserslautern and then stayed there as a graduate student, earning his doctorate in mathematics in 1996 under the supervision of Helmut Neunzert; his dissertation was titled Anisotropic Diffusion in Image Processing.^[3] After taking postdoctoral research positions at the University of Utrecht and the University of Copenhagen, he became an assistant professor at the University of Mannheim, and earned a habilitation degree there in 2001. In the same year, he took a faculty position as a full professor at Saarland University.^[4]

References

1. "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme: 2010: Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert". DFG. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
2. "Saarbrücker Forscher Joachim Weickert mit Leibniz-Preis ausgezeichnet", Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German), 15 March 2010, archived from the original on 8 September 2012.
3. Joachim Weickert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Joachim Weickert, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science". Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University, Germany.

External links

• Official website