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Charles Wüthrich was born in Milan (Italy) in 1959, received
an M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Milan
in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Zurich (Switzerland) in 1990. Between 1991 and 1992
he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dept. of Computer Science
of the University of Toronto. In summer 1992 he received an ERCIM
postdoctoral fellowship, which involved three
six month stays at Rutherford
Appleton Laborarories (RAL) in Chilton, Oxfordshire,
at INESC in Lisbon and at CWI in Amsterdam.
In 1994 he was visiting lecturer at the LaBRI lab
of the University of Bordeaux.
In 1994 he joined the Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics of the
Bauhaus-University in Weimar as a tenure tracked Professor.
In 1995 he partecipated to the Conception and to the
Foundation of the Faculty of Media, where he was elected in 1996 Vice Dean,
and in January 2000 Dean.
In 1997 he received membership of the Faculty of Civil Engineering
at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar.
In February 1998 he was appointed associate professor.
He is in charge
of the Computer Graphics Group and of the technical
infrastructure of the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus University
in Weimar. He is also a member of the
interdisciplinary research project on Teleteaching of the faculties
of Media and of Civil Engineering of the Bauhaus-University
in Weimar.
He is coordinator of the technology courses
at the Faculty of Media, and is initiator of the study
course in Media System Sciences at the Faculty of Media
of the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, which the Faculty
started in 1999
He has been a reviewer for many international journals
and conferences, and has been a member of the International Programme
Committee for various conferences, such as
WSCG 97 to 00, STIJA 99, GVE 99 and Eurographics 2000.
He also served in the the Slide and Animation
context jury of Eurographics 98.
His main research interests are in Discrete Computer Graphics and
Distributed Virtual Reality. He has been producer of various
Computer Animations, some of which recieved international prizes.
He is an active member of various
international committees dealing with Curricula for Computer Graphics.
He has also served as a government advisor for the Government of Thuringia
in the fields of New Media and of Information and Communication Technologies.
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