Winner of the Austrian Computer Graphics Award 2015 (Best Technical Solution)
Runner-up for the Austrian Computer Graphics Award 2016 (Best Technical Solution)
Best Paper Honorable Mention, Pacific Graphics 2018
Recent publications include: 'Beyond Blur: A Fluid Perspective on Generative Diffusion Models' (ICCV 2025), 'FlatCAD: Fast Curvature Regularization of Neural SDFs for CAD Models' (Pacific Graphics 2025), 'Disentangled Phoneme-Prosody Mapping for Controllable 3D Facial Animation' (SIGGRAPH 2025 Posters)
Selected grants: Adobe Research Gift (2022), 'Computational Design of Geometric Materials' (WWTF, 2016–2021), 'MAKE-IT-FAB: Modeling of Shapes for Personal Fabrication' (FWF, 2015–2020)
Chair of Short Papers Program, EUROGRAPHICS 2026 (with Isaak Lim); served on technical program committees for SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, EUROGRAPHICS, Pacific Graphics, SGP, SPM
Associate Editor, Computer Graphics Forum (2021–2024)
Research highlights: FaçAID (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024), Layout Enhancer (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022), Elastic Geodesic Grids (SIGGRAPH 2020 & SIGGRAPH Asia 2021), Shape Optimization (SIGGRAPH 2015 & 2016)
Research Experience
Visiting Professor at Warsaw University of Technology and Group Leader at IDEAS, Warsaw, Poland (2023–2025)
Researcher at VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization, Vienna
Postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University (ASU)
Postdoctoral associate in the Computer Graphics Group at TU Wien
Visiting research scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)