Andreas Dress

Dress earned his PhD from the University of Kiel in 1962, under the supervision of Friedrich Bachmann and Karl-Heinrich Weise. His thesis is entitled Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen.^[3]

Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.^[2] He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.^[4] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.^[5]

Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.^[4]

• Split networks
• SplitsTree
• T-theory
• Tight span