Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Sorkine-Hornung was born in 1981 in the Soviet Union to a mother who is a mathematician and a Jewish father who is a physicist. They emigrated to Israel when she was twelve. She learnt the QBasic programming language when she was 13. She then studied math and computer science at Tel Aviv University graduating at the age of 19. She did her master's degree in parallel to her two-year military service, and completed her doctorate degree in 2006. 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. ==Awards==

• 2024: Test of Time Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing • 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 • 2016: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016 • 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 ==References==