Bernhard Jenny – Curriculum Vitae
Bernhard Jenny is holds a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Cartography of ETH Zurich, where he also did his PhD studies. He holds a M.S. in Geomatics, Surveying and Environmental Sciences of EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and a post-graduate certificate in computer graphics of ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
He has taught classes in cartography and computer graphics and has supervised various M.S. and B.A. students. He received the CaGIS PhD Award 2009 of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, the 2007 Henry Johns Award for the best Cartographic Journal article by the British Cartographic Society, and the award for the best final M.S. mark in Rural Engineering, Environmental Technologies and Surveying at EPFL. He is member of the editorial board of The Cartographic Journal and the Journal of Maps. Bernhard is active in the International Cartographic Association ICA Commissions on Mountain Cartography and Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage.
Research interests: 2D relief shading, terrain generalization, map projections for 3D maps, algorithms for colored relief representation, distortion analysis of diagrams and maps, design of small-scale world map projections, flow maps, web mapping, map design for the color-vision impaired.