Author and co-author of over 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications with over 30,000 citations and over twenty best paper awards and nominations. Received the START career award presented by the Austrian Science Fund in 2002, founded the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality in 2008, received the IEEE Virtual Reality technical achievement award in 2012, and the IEEE ISMAR Career Impact Award in 2020. Elected as Fellow of IEEE, member of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy.
Research Experience
Currently a professor at the University of Stuttgart and an adjunct professor at the Institute of Visual Computing at Graz University of Technology. Has served as associate editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, associate editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, member of the steering committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, chair of the EUROGRAPHICS working group on Virtual Environments, and key researcher of the K-Plus Competence Centers VRVis (Vienna) and Know-Center (Graz).
Education
Received Dipl.-Ing. (1993), Dr. techn. (1997) and Habilitation (2001) from Vienna University of Technology.
Background
Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Visual Computing with research interests in augmented reality, virtual reality, computer graphics, visualization, and human-computer interaction.
Miscellany
Current research areas include real-time graphics, immersive displays, situated visualizations, photorealistic augmented reality, image-based modeling and rendering, 3D reconstruction and authoring, and localization and tracking.