Thomas Strothotte

Thomas Strothotte (born 1959) is a German-Canadian computer scientist and university administrator currently living in Germany.

After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at INRIA Rocquencourt near Paris, he went to the University of Stuttgart as an assistant professor in 1985, earning a D.Sc.

From 1989 to 1990 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg, working in the Software Ergonomics Department.

He moved on to the University of Magdeburg in Germany in 1993, where he was the head of the Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems Laboratory.

He was also the initiator and one of the scientific responsibles for the new degree programme in Computational Visualistics.