Awarded the START Prize by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in 2013 for the project 'BIVISION: Bilevel Optimization for Computer Vision'.
Received the German Pattern Recognition Award (DAGM) in 2013.
Awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2014 for the project 'HOMOVIS: Higher Order Models for Computer Vision'.
Served as associate editor for leading journals including Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, IEEE TPAMI, and SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.
Served as area chair for major conferences including ICCV, ECCV, and CVPR.
Published numerous high-impact papers, e.g., 'FlowSDF: Flow Matching for Medical Image Segmentation Using Distance Transforms', 'Diffusion at Absolute Zero', etc.
Research Experience
Conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Bonn and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics.
Returned to Graz University of Technology as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision.
Has been Professor of Computer Science at Graz University of Technology since 2014.
Served as a board member (reporter) for computer science at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) from 2019 to 2024.
Head of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision since 2023 (renamed to Institute of Visual Computing in 2025).
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering since 2024.