Draft:Joachim Hornegger
Joachim Hornegger | |
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 Joachim Hornegger in 2024 | |
| President of the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg | |
| Assumed office April 1, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Karl-Dieter Grüske |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
| Education | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Erlangen–Nuremberg |
| Thesis | Statistical Learning, Localization, and Identification of Objects (1995) |
Joachim Hornegger (born 1967) is a German computer science Professor and has been President of the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (German: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, FAU) since 2015 .
Early life and education
[edit]Joachim was born in Forchheim, Franconia region of Germany. He completed in schooling and higher education in the same region. [1]
Joachim graduated from University of Erlangen–Nuremberg with degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics in 1992. In 1996 he received his doctorate for his work on statistical object modeling and recognition from the same university. He was an assistant professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1996/97), a visiting scientist at the Technion, a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a visiting scholar and lecturer at Stanford University in the academic year 1997/98.[2]
As part of his management training at Siemens, he earned an additional degree in advanced management from the Duke University in 2003.
Career
[edit]In 1998 he joined Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., where he was working on 3D angiography. In 2001, he was promoted as the head of medical imaging in the area of angiography and radiography systems and in 2003 he took over the overall responsibility for the development of imaging systems as the director.
During his time at Siemens, in parallel to his responsibilities was a guest lecturer at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (1998/1999), Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2000) and University of Mannheim (2000/2003).
Over the years he has held various academic position including, Rank 1, Lecturer in Statistics at Harvard University, Rank 1, C4 Professorship for Electrical Engineering, at RWTH Aachen, Visiting Professor at Institute of Radiology, Stanford University, among others.
In 2003, he joined his alma mater University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as the Professor of Medical Image Processing. In 2005 he became the Chair of Pattern Recognition at the Faculty of Engineering and a secondary member of the Faculty of Medicine. His main research topics included medical image processing, medical vision, image registration, sensor data fusion, and digital sports.
From 2009 to 2011 he was the Vice Dean for Computer Science and from 2011 to 2015 he was the Vice President for Research and part of the Executive Board. In 2015 he won the presidential election and was appointed as the President of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg by the Bavarian Ministry of Science, Research and Art and in April 2021, he began his second term as the President.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Söder, Annemarie (2019-07-17). ""Spitzenforschung ist etwas für jemanden, der motiviert und engagiert ist."". Bürobesuch.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-01.
- ^ "Joachim Hornegger". Pattern Recognition Lab. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
- ^ "FAU: Präsident Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger tritt zum 1. April zweite Amtszeit an – Bayerisches Landesportal" (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-01.