Pere Brunet is  professor of Computer Science at the Polytechnical University
of Catalonia in Barcelona. He received an engineering degree and a PhD.
in the same University in 1976. He is responsible for the Computer Graphics
Group in the department of software, and he has been vice-president for
research of the Polytechnical University of Catalonia from 1988 to 1992.
His research interests include Computer-Aided Geometric Design, Solid Modeling,
Octree Representations and Virtual Reality. His group is working in different
research activities and projects including CAD and piping for ship design,
free form surface design, rendering algorithms and volume modelling and
visualization for medical applications. He promoted the Virtual Reality 
Center of Barcelona and is presently the UPC responsible of the Center.
He is a member of the editorial board of the international journals 
Computer-Aided Design, Computer-Aided Geometric Design, IEEE 
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and Computers 
& Graphics. He has published refereed papers in well-known 
international research journals and has participated actively in many 
International Conferences. He was the chairman of the Spanish Chapter 
of Eurographics since its creation in 1986 until 1990, and a member of the 
Eurographics Executive Committee since 1989. He was the Chairman of the 
Eurographics '93 Conference, Chairman of the Eurographics Association 
during 2001 and 2002, co-chair of tutorials at Eurographics '97, co-chair of 
the International Programme Committee for Eurographics'99 and Eurographics'03
and member of the Siggraph'2000 courses committee. He has been awarded 
with a number of honours, and he is a member of the Spanish Academy 
of Engineering.


   Pere Brunet
   Professor, Software Department
   Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
   Barcelona, Spain


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   Pere Brunet                                       Tel: +34 93 401 5700
   Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya                         +34 93 413 7959
   Dept. de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics       Fax: +34 93 401 5750
   Edifici Omega, Despatx 302, Campus Nord
   c/. Jordi Girona 1-3
   E-08034 Barcelona                                 pere@lsi.upc.es
   Spain                                             www.lsi.upc.es/~pere
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