Olga Sorkine-Hornung


Olga Sorkine-Hornung is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2011.

Personal life and career

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. Since 2018, Sorkine-Hornung is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.
She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins.

Awards