Marc Alexa is a professor of

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TU Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

working in the fields of

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal ...

geometric modeling __NOTOC__ Geometric modeling is a branch of applied mathematics and computational geometry that studies methods and algorithms for the mathematical description of shapes. The shapes studied in geometric modeling are mostly two- or three- dimen ...

and

geometry processing Geometry processing, or mesh processing, is an area of research that uses concepts from applied mathematics, computer science and engineering to design efficient algorithms for the acquisition, reconstruction, analysis, manipulation, simulat ...

Life

Alexa studied

at TU Darmstadt, receiving a

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in 1997 and a

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in 2002. After his graduation, he spent time as a

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with

Greg Turk Greg Turk is an American-born researcher in the field of computer graphics and a professor at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His paper "Zippered polygon mesh ...

Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part o ...

, returning the same year to become

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at TU Darmstadt. In 2005, he became an

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for computer graphics at

, transitioning to the

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in 2010. He conducted research at

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Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

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, and the

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. From 2018 to 2021, he was the

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Awards

Alexa received numerous best paper awards at conferences, in particular the

Symposium on Geometry Processing Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) is an annual symposium hosted by the European Association For Computer Graphics (Eurographics). The goal of the symposium is to present and discuss new research ideas and results in geometry processing. The ...

. Other noteworthy distinctions: *2022: ERC Advanced Grant *2018: Fellow of the

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Association *2014: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award *2012: Engineering Sciences Prize of the Academy,

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), abbreviated BBAW, is the official academic society for the natural sciences and humanities for the German states of Berlin ...

*2010: ERC Starting Grant *2003: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the

German Research Foundation The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alexa, Marc Living people 1974 births Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni German computer scientists Computer graphics researchers European Research Council grantees