Prof. Deussen graduated at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and is professor at University of Konstanz, one of the few Excellence Universities in Germany. He served as visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science in Shenzhen (SIAT), in 2014 he was awarded within the 1000 talents plan of the Chinese government. He serves as President of the Eurographics Association and is speaker of the Excellence Cluster "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour".