Andreas Dress

Andreas Dress (26 August 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.

Biography
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.

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

Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.