Hendrik P. A. Lensch holds the chair for computer graphics at the University of Tübingen and the vice-spokesperson of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. He received his diploma in computers science from the University of Erlangen in 1999. He worked as a research associate at the computer graphics group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany, and received his PhD from Saarland University in 2003. Hendrik Lensch spent two years (2004-2006) as a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University, USA, followed by a stay at the MPI Informatik as the head of an independent research group. From 2009 to 2011 he was a full professor at the Institute for Media Informatics at Ulm University, Germany. From 2014 to 2020 he was head of the computer science department. In his career, he received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2005, was awarded an Emmy-Noether-Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2007 and received an NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award in 2010. His research interests include 3D appearance acquisition, computational photography, machine learning, global illumination and image-based rendering, and massively parallel programming.
