1. Kurt Mehlhorn was born on 29 August 1949 and is a German theoretical computer scientist.
14 Facts About Kurt Mehlhorn
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Kurt Mehlhorn has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
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Kurt Mehlhorn has been on the editorial boards of ten journals, a trustee of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and a member of the board of governors of Jacobs University Bremen.
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Kurt Mehlhorn served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2009 to 2011.
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Kurt Mehlhorn won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1986, the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize in 1989, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award in 1994, the Konrad Zuse Medal in 1995, the EATCS Award in 2010, and the Paris Kanellakis Award in 2010.
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Kurt Mehlhorn was named a member of the Academia Europaea in 1995, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1999, a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2001, a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2004, a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
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Kurt Mehlhorn has received honorary doctorates from the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg in 2002 and the University of Waterloo in 2006.
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Kurt Mehlhorn is the 2014 winner of the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea.
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Kurt Mehlhorn is the author of several books and over 250 scientific publications, which include fundamental contributions to data structures, computational geometry, computer algebra, parallel computing, VLSI design, computational complexity, combinatorial optimization, and graph algorithms.
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Kurt Mehlhorn has been an important figure in the development of algorithm engineering and is one of the developers of LEDA, the Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms.
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Kurt Mehlhorn has played an important role in the establishment of several research centres for computer science in Germany.
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Kurt Mehlhorn was the driving force behind the establishment of a Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Germany, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
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Kurt Mehlhorn was managing director of the institute and headed the department of algorithms and complexity.
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Kurt Mehlhorn initiated the research center for computer science at Dagstuhl and the European Symposium on Algorithms.