Joachim Weickert

Joachim Weickert is a recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and a professor of mathematics and computer science at Saarland University where he heads the Mathematical Image Analysis Group. He received a diploma and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern (1991, 1996), and a habilitation degree in computer science from the University of Mannheim (2001). He worked as research assistant at the University of Kaiserslautern, as post-doctoral researcher at the universities of Utrecht and Copenhagen, and as assistant professor at the University of Mannheim.