Oliver Günther

Oliver Günther
Günther in 2021
Born22 October 1961 (1961-10-22) (age 63)
NationalityGerman
OccupationPresident of the University of Potsdam
AwardsDoctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, American Jewish University, 2014
Member, Acatech, 2019
Academic background
EducationMS in Industrial Engineering
MS/PhD in Computer Science
Alma materKarlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisEfficient Structures for Geometric Data Management (1987)
Doctoral advisorEugene Wong
Academic work
DisciplineComputer Science
Doctoral studentsHans-Arno Jacobsen
Gerrit Tamm
Sarah Spiekermann

Oliver Günther (born 22 October 1961 in Stuttgart) is president of the University of Potsdam and former president of the German Informatics Society (GI).