Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 1994-1999
- Study of Computer Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
- Diploma with honors in Computer Science.
- Diploma thesis in Computer Graphics on Semi-Automatic Methods for Reconstruction of CAD Models from Point Data (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Leif Kobbelt and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel).
- Received degree Dipl.-Inf. (Diplominformatiker).
- 1999-2005
- PhD student at the Computer Graphics department, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.
- PhD Thesis on New Techniques for the Visualization of Surfaces and Volumes (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel), defended on July 20, 2005 with honors (summa cum laude).
- Received degree Dr.-Ing.
Employment
- 2008-present
- Researcher/lecturer at the Visual Computing group, University of Magdeburg, Germany
- 2012 Forschungspreis der Fakultät für Informatik (research award of the faculty)
- 2006- 2008
- PostDoc at Geometrica project at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, partially funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- 1999- 2006
- Full-time researcher at the Computer Graphics department, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Language skills
- Languages
- German (native), English (fluent), French (basics)
- Programing languages
- In regular use: C/C++, Julia (preferred over Matlab and/or GNU Octave), Ruby
- In use mainly for teaching: Java
Publications
See list of (peer reviewed) publications and Google Scholar