Leif Kobbelt is a German university professor for Computer Science with a specialization in Computer Graphics.
Education
After receiving his diploma in 1992 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1994 in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology he worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Max Planck Institute of Computer Science before he moved to Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University in 2001.
Career
Since 2001 he is the head of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Multimedia at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen university. Here he built up an internationally renowned research group which eventually led to the foundation of the Visual Computing Institute at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in 2015. His research interests include 3D reconstruction, efficient geometry processing, realtime rendering, digital fabrication and multi-media applications.
Kobbelt published a substantial number of influential papers in international top-conferences and journals.
He also acts as a consultant, reviewer, and editor for international companies, research organizations and journals, respectively. He was nominated as a Fellow of the Eurographics Association (2008) and as a Distinguished Professor of Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University (2013).
Membership
In 2015 he became a member of the Academia Europaea.