Marc Alexa
{{short description|Computer scientist}}
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| thesis_title = Shape Spaces from Morphing
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| doctoral_advisor = José Luis Encarnação
| alma_mater = TU Darmstadt (M.S. and Ph.D.)
| work_institutions = {{unbulleted list|TU Darmstadt|TU Berlin}}
| field = Computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing
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| birth_place = Darmstadt, Germany
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| thesis_year = 2002
| website = {{URL|https://www.cg.tu-berlin.de}}
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| notable_students = Olga Sorkine-Hornung
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Marc Alexa is a professor of computer science at TU Berlin working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing.
Life
Alexa studied computer science at TU Darmstadt, receiving a Diplom in 1997 and a PhD in 2002. After his graduation, he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher with Greg Turk at Georgia Tech, returning the same year to become assistant professor at TU Darmstadt. In 2005, he became an associate professor for computer graphics at TU Berlin, transitioning to the full professorship in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://cybertron.cg.tu-berlin.de/~alexa/cvema.pdf|title=Marc Alexa CV}} He conducted research at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research, ETH Zurich, and the University of Toronto. From 2018 to 2021, he was the editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics.
Awards
Alexa received numerous best paper awards at conferences, in particular the Symposium on Geometry Processing.{{Cite web|url=http://awards.geometryprocessing.org/|title=Symposium on Geometry Processing – Awards|website=awards.geometryprocessing.org}} Other noteworthy distinctions:
- 2024: ACM Fellow{{cite web|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/january/fellows-2024|title= 2024 ACM Fellows Honored for Contributions to Computing That Are Transforming Science and Society|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=January 22, 2025|access-date=2025-01-23}}
- 2022: ERC Advanced Grant{{cite web |url=https://mathplus.de/news/m-alexa-received-erc-adv-grant/|title= MATH+ Member Marc Alexa Received ERC Advanced Grant |publisher=MATH+|accessdate=2022-05-16}}
- 2018: Fellow of the Eurographics Association{{Cite web|url=https://www.eg.org/wp/fellows/|title=Fellows – Eurographics}}
- 2014: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/the-outstanding-technical-contributions-award/outstanding-technical-contributions-award-2014-marc-alexa/|title=Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2014 – Marc Alexa|publisher=Eurographics|accessdate=2022-05-16}}
- 2012: Engineering Sciences Prize of the Academy, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbaw.de/en/the-academy/awards/prizes/engineering-science-prize-of-the-academy|title=Engineering Science Prize of the Academy – Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities|website=www.bbaw.de}}
- 2010: ERC Starting Grant{{cite web |url=https://erc.easme-web.eu/?p=259550|title=Expressive Shape: Intuitive Creative and Optimization of 3D Geometry (XShape) |publisher=European Research Council|accessdate=2021-10-20}}
- 2003: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the German Research Foundation{{Cite web|url=https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibnitz-preis/2003/index.html|title=Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2003|website=www.dfg.de}}
References
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External links
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- {{Official website}}
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Category:Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin
Category:Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Category:German computer scientists
Category:Computer graphics researchers
Category:European Research Council grantees
Category:2024 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery