Hendrik Lensch is the head of the independent research group "General Appearance Acquisition" within the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany. He studied computer science at the University of Erlangen and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, receiving his diploma in 1999. He worked as a PhD student and research associate at Hans-Peter Seidel's computer graphics group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik. In 2003, he received his doctorate from Saarland University. From 2004 to 2006 he was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University in the Computer Graphics Lab, collaborating with Marc Levoy.
Hendrik Lensch is interested in problems in computer graphics and computer vision. His current research focuses on capturing the appearance of the real world from digital imagery, as well as developing and enhancing imaging techniques by computational means. He received the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award 2005 and was awarded an Emmy Noether Fellowship by the German Research Foundation in 2007.