Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Olga Sorkine-Hornung (Hebrew: אולגה סורקין-הורנונג, Russian: Ольга Соркин-Хорнунг; born 1981 ) is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2011. Subsequently, she worked at Technische Universität Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher and as an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, before being appointed to ETH Zurich in 2011 at the age of 30 as the youngest professor at the time, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab.

She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins. 2021: Golden Owl (awarded for excellence in teaching at ETH Zurich) 2017: Rössler Prize (accompanied by in research funds) 2017: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2015: Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award for libigl, a C++ geometry processing library 2015: Fellow of the Eurographics Associationlibrary 2014: Best Paper Award at Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014 2012: ERC Starting Grant 2012: Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award 2008: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award 2006-2008: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship 2003: Excellence award, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University 1999-2000: Dean’s List of Excellence, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University