José Luis Encarnação

In August 2018 he was elected a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy.

Since March 2017 he is the chairman of the International Assessment and Evaluation Board nominated by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) to build up the Collaborative Laboratories (Co-Labs) in Portugal.

In honor of Professor Encarnação's achievements in the area of Computer Graphics, the Eurographics Portuguese Chapter established in 2010 the annual Professor José Luís Encarnação Award for student achievement in academic publication in the area of Computer Graphics.

and an honorary senatorship from the University of Maribor, Slowenia, in 2002.

From July 2001 to October 2006 he was the chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Group.

From 2001 to 2007 Professor Encarnação was a member of the EU-Advisory Board (ISTAG) for the EU 6th and 7th Framework Programme for the ICT area. He was chairman of this board from 2002 to 2004 and its vice-chairman from 2005 to 2007.

In 2001 he was elected full academy member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities BBAW and in 2002 he became a full academy member of the German Academy of Science and Technology acatech. In 2017 he was awarded with an honorary membership of the German "Gesellschaft für Forschungstransfer" (GFFT).

The country of Portugal decorated him with the Order of Saint James of the Sword in 2001.

The German Federal State of Hesse awarded to him the Hessian Culture Prize in 2000

In 1999 he founded the INI-GraphicsNet, an International Network of Institutions for R&D and Applications in Computer Graphics, which is today a network of legally independent but closely cooperating research entities in Germany, Italy, Panama, Portugal and Spain. Since 2010 this network is operating under the new name GraphicsMedia.net GmbH.

Professor Encarnação is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery since 1996, a Fellow of Eurographics as well as Honorary Fellow of Eurographics since 2006.

From 1995 to 2001 he was an elected member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer Society (FhG) in Munich and from 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the Advisory Board (Präsidium) of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

From 1987 to 2006, he was the founding director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany.

Professor Encarnação founded the Fraunhofer IGD in 1986 and several Start-Ups between 1975 and 2009.

From 1983 to 2007, Encarnação was Editor-in-Chief of the Computers & Graphics Journal (Elsevier).

In 1980, Professor Encarnação was one of the founders of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, from 1980 to 1984 its first chairman and from 1985 to 1991 the chairman of its Professional Board.

In 1977, he and his research group introduced the Graphical Kernel System (GKS) as the first ISO standard for low-level computer graphics.

From 1975 to 2009 he was a full professor of Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany, and the head of its Interactive Graphics Research Group (TUD–GRIS). Since October 2009 he is Professor Emeritus of the TU Darmstadt.

In 1967, Professor Encarnação started his academic career in Computer Graphics at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin. Subsequently, he held research and academic positions at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin (1968-1972) and at the Universität des Saarlandes (1972 – 1975).

Professor Encarnação was born in Portugal and has lived in the Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany) since 1959. In Portugal, he graduated from the Escola Salesiana do Estoril.