30.05.1941: born in Cascais, Portugal
School-leaving examination at the Escola Salesiana do Estoril
Study of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin
1970 Doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin; subject of the doctoral thesis: 3D-Computer Graphics
1970 - 1972 Head of a software development research group at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Berlin
1972 - 1975 Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Since 1975 Full Professor of Computer Science (C4); Technische Universität Darmstadt
1977 - 1979 Advisor to National Engineering Laboratory (LNEC), Lisbon
1980 - 1982 Member of the Reviewing Board of the Institute of Science of the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
1980 - 1991 Founder of EUROGRAPHICS; 1980-1984 President; 1985-1991 Chairman of the Professional Board
1982 - 2002 Member of the Advisory Board and representative of the TC 5 IFIP, Gesellschaft für Informatik in Bonn (GI)
1983 - 1984 Advisor to the Automation Institute of the Informatics Centre (CTI) of the Brazilian government, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1983 - 1993 Chairman of the Technical Committee for Computer Graphics (GI-FA 4.1) of the German Computer Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik)
1983 - 1995 UNIDO advisor
Since 1984 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Computer Graphics Center
Since 1984 Member of the Supervisory Board of the Informatics Research Center (Forschungszentrum für Informatik/FZI) in Karlsruhe
1985 - 1990 Member of the Executive Board of the German Computer Society (GI)
Since 1987 Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt
Since 1990 Co-Chairman and
since 1991 Chairman of the Advisory Board for Research and Technology of the land Hesse (hessischer Forschungs- und Technologiebeirat)
1995 - 2004 Elected senior technical reviewer and advisor to the German Science Foundation (DFG)
1995 - 2001 Elected member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer Society
Since 1999 Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Advisory Board of the INI-GraphicsNet-Stiftung
Since 2001 Chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT Group
Since 2001 Member of ISTAG (IST Advisory Group of the EU)
Since 2001 Member of the Feldafinger Kreis
2002 - 2004
since 2005 Chairman and
Co-Chairman of ISTAG for EU FP6
Since 2002 Member of the Advisory Board for the Internationalisation of the Portuguese Economy (ITEC/COTEC)
Since 2002 Member of the "Präsidium"(Executive Board) of the Fraunhofer Society
Since 2003 Member of the Council Board of the "Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt e.V."
Since 2004 Member of the University Council of the University of Rostock
2004 - 2005 Chairman of a panel of experts convoked by the Portuguese government for the evaluation of Portuguese state laboratories
Since 2005 Member of the Committee for Research Evaluation in Italy (CIVR)
