his colleagues founded a commercial company, MeVis Medical Solutions AG (de), MMS, which has been listed on the German stock market since 2007. MMS is one of the world’s leading independent producers of software products for image-based medicine, particularly digital radiology. Peitgen served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board between 2006 and 2015. Peitgen has been appointed to chairs at several German and American universities and has served as a visiting professor at universities in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Italy. He is the author of several award-winning books, which were translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Russian and became worldwide bestsellers. Moreover, he created a series of films that have helped to publicize fractal geometry and chaos theory around the world. He is co-editor of several professional journals. In 1992, Peitgen was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and in 2008 as a member of the Goettingen Academy of Sciences. In 2015 he was elected Dean of Class IV - Natural Sciences in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2015 he was awarded Dr.-Ing.h.c. from the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg for his merits in medical image computing. University Leadership On January 1, 2013, Dr. Peitgen took over as President of Jacobs University (Former International University Bremen), Bremen, Germany. He was successor of former President Joachim Treusch. He resigned abruptly from the post at the end of 2013. Awards 1996: Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1999: Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis für Forschung und Innovation 2005: Werner-Körte-Medaille in Gold der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (DGCH) 2006: Inducted as Fellow into the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Hall of Fame at Florida Atlantic together with Benoit B. Mandelbrot 2006: Deutscher Gründerpreis 2006 in der Kategorie „Visionäre“ 2013: Fraunhofer-Medaille Selected books The Beauty of Fractals, Springer, Heidelberg, 1986 (with P. H. Richter) The Science of Fractal Images, Springer Verlag, Tokyo, Springer, New York, 1988 (with D. Saupe) Newton's Method and Dynamical Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1989 Fractals for the Classroom – Part One, Springer-Verlag, New York, and NCTM, 1991 (with H. Jürgens and D. Saupe) Fractals for the Classroom – Part Two, Springer-Verlag, New York, and NCTM, 1992 (with H. Jürgens and D. Saupe) Fractals for the Classroom – Strategic Activities, Vol. 1, Springer-Verlag, New York, and NCTM, 1990 (with H. Jürgens, D. Saupe, E. Maletsky, T. Perciante and