Joachim Weickert (born 15 March 1965 in Ludwigshafen) is a German professor of mathematics and computer science at Saarland University. In 2010, Weickert was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work in image processing.
Weickert did his undergraduate studies at the University of Kaiserslautern and then stayed there as a graduate student, earning his doctorate in mathematics in 1996 under the supervision of Helmut Neunzert; his dissertation was titled Anisotropic Diffusion in Image Processing. After taking postdoctoral research positions at the University of Utrecht and the University of Copenhagen, he became an assistant professor at the University of Mannheim, and earned a habilitation degree there in 2001. In the same year, he took a faculty position as a full professor at Saarland University.
References
- "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme: 2010: Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert". DFG. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- "Saarbrücker Forscher Joachim Weickert mit Leibniz-Preis ausgezeichnet", Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German), 15 March 2010, archived from the original on 8 September 2012.
- Joachim Weickert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Joachim Weickert, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science". Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University, Germany.
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Categories:- 1965 births
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- 20th-century German mathematicians
- German computer scientists
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
- Technical University of Kaiserslautern alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Mannheim
- Academic staff of Saarland University
- People from Ludwigshafen
- 21st-century German mathematicians