Tobias Günther

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Günther

Professor for Visual Computing

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Department of Computer Science

Cauerstraße 11
91058 Erlangen
Deutschland

Room 01.115-128
☏ +49 9131 85-29918
✉ tobias.guenther@fau.de
🔗 https://vc.tf.fau.de
Office hours: by appointment

Bio

Since 2020, I am a professor of visual computing at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Before, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGL) at ETH Zurich, where I worked in the group of Prof. Markus Gross. In 2016, I received my Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) in the Visual Computing Group at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, advised by Prof. Holger Theisel.

Career

since 09/2020 Professor for Visual Computing
Department of Computer Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
01/2021 – 06/2023 Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
08/2016 – 08/2020 Postdoctoral Researcher
Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zurich
02/2013 – 07/2016 PhD Student
Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg
2011 – 2013 Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg
2007 – 2011 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg

Invited Talks

September 2020 Visualizing Motion: From Points to Fields
Invited Talk at Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2020, Tübingen (virtual)
Organized by Hendrik Lensch.
July 2nd 2019 Feature Extraction in Unsteady Flows
Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, University of Leeds
Organized by Mai Elshehaly.
June 20th 2018 Visualization of Clouds and Atmospheric Air Flows
German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)
Organized by Niklas Röber.
February 21st 2018 Visualization of Clouds and Atmospheric Air Flows
All-Staff Meeting, HD(CP)² Project
Organized by Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology.
February 27th 2017 Opacity Optimization and Inertial Particles in Flow Visualization
Visualization Workshop at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Organized by Markus Hadwiger.
February 2nd 2016 Photons and Particles: Scene Editing in Light Transport and Inertial Particles in Flow Visualization
Computer Graphics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
Group headed by Markus Gross.
December 16th 2015 Opacity Optimization and Inertial Particles in Flow Visualization
Computer Graphics Group, Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken (MPII)
Group headed by Hans-Peter Seidel.
July 6th 2015 Optimal Surface-based Flow Visualization + Scene Editing in Progressive Light Transport
Computer Graphics Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Group headed by Carsten Dachsbacher.

Honors and Awards

01/2014 Teaching Award
Students of Faculty of Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Awarded for the seminar "Visual Computing" in the winter term 2023/24.
02/2023 Hochschulwettwerb 2023
Wissenschaft im Dialog
Awarded for the VR project idea "Expedition to the Black Hole".
10/2022 Honorable Mention Award
IEEE Visualization 2022
Awarded for the submission "GRay: Ray Casting for Visualization and Interactive Data Exploration of Gaussian Mixture Models".
04/2021 Eurographics Young Researcher Award (1 of 2)
Eurographics Association 2021
Awarded for my work in visualization and computer graphics.
05/2020 Honorable Mention Award (1 of 3)
Eurographics Conference on Visualization 2020
Awarded for the paper "Phase Space Projection of Dynamical Systems".
10/2019 Honorable Mention Award (1 of 2)
IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest 2019
Awarded for the submission "Visualizing the Temporal Evolution of the Universe from Cosmology Simulations".
06/2019 Best Paper Award
TopoInVis 2019
Awarded for the paper "Objective Finite-Time Flow Topology from Flowmap Expansion and Contraction".
06/2019 Honorable Mention Award
Eurographics Conference on Visualization - Short Papers 2019
Awarded for the paper "Simulation and Visualization of Fluid Flows Around Real Objects in Augmented Reality".
01/2019 CGF Cover Contest (1st place)
Computer Graphics Forum
Awarded image created with: "Stylized Image Triangulation".
10/2018 VPG Dissertation Award
IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)
Awarded for the dissertation "Opacity Optimization and Inertial Particles in Flow Visualization".
10/2018 Best Paper Award
Vision, Modeling & Visualization 2018
Awarded for the submission "Parameter Space Comparison of Inertial Particle Models".
10/2018 Honorable Mention Award (1 of 2)
IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest 2018
Awarded for the submission "Visualization and Analysis of Deep Water Asteroid Impacts".
01/2018 CGF Cover Contest (3rd place)
Computer Graphics Forum
Awarded image: "Progressive Monte Carlo Rendering of Atmospheric Flow Features Across Scales".
10/2017 Contest Winner
IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest 2017
Awarded for the submission "Visualization of Clouds and Atmospheric Air Flows".
09/2017 Honorable Mention Award (1 of 2)
Vision, Modeling & Visualization 2017
Awarded for the paper "Visualization of Neural Network Predictions for Weather Forecasting".
04/2017 Honorable Mention Award (1 of 3)
Eurographics 2017
Awarded for the paper "Flow-Induced Inertial Steady Vector Field Topology".
04/2017 Eurographics PhD Award (1 of 3)
Eurographics Association
Awarded for the dissertation "Opacity Optimization and Inertial Particles in Flow Visualization".
01/2017 CGF Cover Contest (2nd place)
Computer Graphics Forum
Awarded image from: "MCFTLE: Monte Carlo Rendering of Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponent Fields".
11/2016 Milton van Dyke Poster Award (1 of 3)
Gallery of Fluid Motion, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Awarded poster: "Progressive Monte Carlo Rendering of Atmospheric Flow Features Across Scales".
11/2016 Otto-von-Guericke Dissertation Award (1 of 2)
University of Magdeburg
Awarded for the dissertation "Opacity Optimization and Inertial Particles in Flow Visualization".
11/2016 Dissertation Award
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg
Awarded for the dissertation "Opacity Optimization and Inertial Particles in Flow Visualization".
01/2016 Research Award (1 of 2)
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg
Awarded for the paper "Rotation Invariant Vortices for Flow Visualization" in 2015.
10/2015 Honorable Mention Award
IEEE Scientific Visualization 2015
Awarded for the paper "Rotation Invariant Vortices for Flow Visualization".
11/2014 Best Contest Award
IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest 2014
Awarded for the submission "Visualizing the Aftermath of Volcanic Eruptions".
01/2014 Research Award
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg
Awarded for the paper "Opacity Optimization for 3D Line Fields" in 2013.
01/2014 Student Research Award
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg
Awarded for the paper "Mass-Dependent Integral Curves in Unsteady Vector Fields" in 2013.
01/2014 Teaching Award
Student Representatives of Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg
Awarded "Hero of Teaching" for the course "Introduction to Computational Geometry" in the summer term 2013.
10/2013 Faculty Award for Best Graduate in the Academic Year
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg
10/2013 Best Graduate of the Academic Year in Computer Science Master
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg
10/2012 Best Graduate of the Academic Year in Computational Visualistics Bachelor
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg

Scientific Community

Fellowships

2021 - 2026Eurographics Junior Fellow

Memberships

06/2013 - todayACM SIGGRAPH Member
01/2014 - todayEurographics Member
01/2021 - todayGerman Informatics Society (GI) Member

Chair Activity

Posters Co-Chair Eurographics Conference 2025
General Co-Chair Eurographics Conference on Visualization 2021

Steering Committee

2019 - 2022 Topological Data Analysis and Visualization

International Program Committee

ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA (SIGGRAPH ASIA '24)
Eurographics (EG '21, '22, '24, '25)
Eurographics Conference on Visualization STAR (EuroVis STAR '22, '23, '24)
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV '22)
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR '21, '23, '24)
IEEE Scientific Visualization (Vis '19, '20, '21)
IEEE Visualization (Vis '23, '24)
IEEE Visualization Short Papers (Vis '22)
IEEE Pacific Visualization (PacificVis '19, '20, '21)
IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV '18, '19, '20, '21)
Pacific Graphics (PG '23, '24)
Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis '22, '23, '24)
Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24)

Served as Reviewer

ACM SIGGRAPH (SIGGRAPH '18, '23, '24)
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA (SIGGRAPH ASIA '21, '24)
Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Enegineering (CJECE '18)
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF '14, '20, '21, '22, '23)
Computers & Graphics (C&G '16, '17, '18, '20, '21, '23, '24)
Computer Physics Communications (COMPHY '22)
Eurographics (EG '16, '19, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25)
Eurographics Short (EG Short '22, '23)
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '23, '24)
Eurographics Conference on Visualization STAR (EuroVis STAR '22, '23, '24)
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV '22, '23, '24)
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR '21, '23, '24)
Graphics Interface (GI '18)
IEEE Pacific Visualization (IEEE PacificVis '15, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24)
IEEE Scientific Visualization (IEEE SciVis '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '21)
IEEE Scientific Visualization Short (IEEE SciVis Short '18, '19, '21)
IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV '18, '19, '20, '21)
IEEE Transactions on Applied Perception (IEEE TAP '17)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24)
IEEE Visualization (IEEE Vis '22, '23, '24)
IEEE Visualization Short (IEEE Vis Short '22)
International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG '20, '21, '22, '23, '24)
International Journal of Digital Earth (Digit Earth '18)
Pacific Graphics (PG '23, '24)
The Visual Computer (TVC '19, '20, '21, '23)
Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis '22, '23, '24)
Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24)