In 2018 he was awarded the Eurographics Gold Medal of the European Association for Computer Graphics for his services to the field of computer graphics. And his services are manifold. Born in Carinthia, the 59-year-old began his career at TU Graz to which he returned in 2005 after many years of living abroad to set up the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualisation. At the end of 2006 he became head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research with branches in Darmstadt, Rostock and Singapore and divides his time between Germany, Graz and a comfortable seat on the plane.
Read more about how Dieter Feller manages all this and what drove him to grappling with computer graphics and visual computing in the News+Stories interview on the TU Graz website.