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 - 2026 | Eurographics Junior Fellow |
Memberships
| 06/2013 - today | ACM SIGGRAPH Member |
| 01/2014 - today | Eurographics Member |
| 01/2021 - today | German 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) |
