Joachim Weickert

Joachim Weickert (born 15 March 1965, 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 entitled 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 2012-04-18.
  2. ↑ "Saarbrücker Forscher Joachim Weickert mit Leibniz-Preis ausgezeichnet", Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German), March 15, 2010.
  3. ↑ Joachim Weickert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Faculty profile, Saarland University, retrieved 2012-04-18.

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