Short CV

Full CV as pdf and updated list of publications as pdf.

Education

March 2013	Marie-Curie Intra European Fellowship at Imperial College London
May 2011	Ph.D. degree (Dr. techn.) from the Graz University of Technology with highest distinction
September-October 2009	Guest Researcher at TKK, Helsinki, Finland
2007 - 2011	Doctoral program (PhD) in computer science at the Graz University of Technology Supervision: Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg and Prof. Markus Hadwiger
October 2007	Master's degree (Dipl.-Ing., MSc.) from the Graz University of Technology with highest distinction
2005 - 2007	Master's studies in Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology
June 2005	Bachelor's degree (Bakk. techn.) from the Graz University of Technology
2001 - 2005	Bachelor studies in Telematics
2001	Military service, Aufklaerungsbataillon 1, Hackherkaserne Gratkorn. (peeling potatoes)
2000	Graduation (Matura) at BG/BRG Fuerstenfeld with distinction
1992 - 2000	Secondary school (Gymnasium) BG/BRG Fuerstenfeld
1988 - 1992	Primary School (Volksschule) at Schillerplatz Fuerstenfeld

Professional

Since 2013	Marie-Curie fellow at Imperial College London, UK
2011-2013	Lead researcher Austrian Science Fund (FWF): "Managed Volume Processing", TU-Graz, Austria
Since 2011	Technical consultant Perception Park e.U. Graz, Austria
2011 - 2012	Lead researcher and principal engineer EU FP7 project IMPPACT (223877), TU-Graz, Austria
2008 - 2011	Principal engineer EU FP7 project IMPPACT (223877), TU-Graz, Austria
2008 - 2011	Research Assistant at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (Graz University of Technology)
December 2007 - July 2008	Research Assistant at the Department of Urology (Medical University of Innsbruck)
October 2007 - December 2007	Research assistant at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (Graz University of Technology)
2004 - 2007	Principal engineer project ``4D-Flow'', SIEMENS HealthCare Graz, Austria
2006 - 2013	minimally employed at the "Institut für Hochspannungstechnik und Systemmanagement"	Research, Programming, Illustrations
2001 - 2004	Magnasteyr Graz (automobile sector)	Research, Programming, Webdesign, Quality Management, Project Management
1997 - 2000	Service at Stadtwerke Fürstenfeld	Customer Service, Administration
1996	Cooking Internship at Restaurant Hofkeller in Fürstenfeld	cooking on a high level (2 Gault Millau points)

Stipends, achievements, granted projects

2012	Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF at Imperial College London
2012	FWF Erwin Schrödinger Scholarship at Imperial College London resigned in favour of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
2012	Collaborative project EU FP7 ClinicImppact
2012	Collaborative project EU FP7 Go-Smart: A Generic Open-end Simulation Environment for Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatment, project number FP7-ICT-2011-9 600641 (overall approx. 4 Mio Euro)
2012	'Karl-Heinz-Höhne Medvis Award' research prize, 3rd price for the work 'Crepuscular Rays for Tumor Accessibility Planning.'
2011	'Forum Technology and Society' research prize, Research price for the best dissertation in Graz 2011
2011	Ing. F. Schmiedl research prize, Research price for the best dissertation in human technology and communication technology by the Ing. F. Schmiedl foundation
2011	Best paper award, International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, Vancouver, Canada
2011	"Managed Volume Processing on the GPU". Funded by FWF Austrian Science Fund, P23329.
2010	"FutureLab" granted by Graz University of Technology
2008	"ACM Honorable Mention". CGEMS Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source, SIGGRAPH Educational Committee and the Eurographics Education Board (2008). .
2007	Award for excellent performance as a student (Leistungsstipendium) granted by the Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology
2007	Research grant for students (Förderstipendium) awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology

Projects

• F.A.U.S.T. -- Flexible Application of Uncertainty for Scanning and Tracking FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
  
• Managed Volume Processing on the GPU -- MVP visit this link
  
  
  
  
• Image-based Multi-scale Physiological Planning for Ablation Cancer Treatment - IMPPACT
  Visit www.imppact.eu
  IMPPACT is a European FP7 ICT-Project (STREP) started on 1.09.2008 with the end on 31.08.2011. It aims to develop an intervention planning system for Radiofrequency Ablation of malignant liver tumours.
  
  
• PASCAL
  In November 2007 I started my work on PASCAL (Position Awareness in Surgery through Computer Aided Localization) together with Prof. Bartsch from the Innsbruck University Clinic.
  We have massively used graphics hardware acceleration to reconstruct the biopsy position of a patient during surgery. The project has been stopped because of funding issues.
  4D-Flow
  Since 2004 I am working with Ursula Reiter and Gert Reiter with SIEMENS Healthcare, the Graz University clinic of Radiology and the Diagnstikzentrum Graz on phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging to measure and visualize cardiovascular blood flow. The image below side shows my own carotid artery with a nice one million particle effect.
  
• Cran-US
  In Summer 2008 I supervised an internship at my institute to finalize a neonatal ultrasonic simulator. I exposed the Cran-US ultrasonic simulator, which is the work of Daniela Markov-Vetter, at the ECR conference 2008 in Vienna. The image below shows the setup there in action.