Invited Speakers

Dr. Katja Bühler is the Scientific Director of the VRVis GmbH, a non-profit research center for Visual Computing in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2000 with the goal of implementing technology transfer between science and industry. Her academic background is in Mathematics (Dipl.math. KIT, Germany) and Computer Science (Dr. techn., TU Wien, Austria). She joint VRVis in 2002 as senior researcher and was promoted to group leader in 2003 and to area leader in 2010. Her efforts to realize innovative Visual Computing solutions in close collaboration with industry and science were recognized with the Austrian science 2buisness Award in 2012 and the TU Wien Frauenpreis 2020. Katjas’ scientific research as leader of the Image Informatics Group at VRVis is centered on methods that provide intuitive and efficient access to the information encoded in imaging and related (spatial) data. She realizes this vision together with her interdisciplinary team, which combines expertise in image analysis, artificial intelligence, data mining, visualization and HCI to create intelligent human-centered solutions for various application fields. In addition to her work at VRVis, she is member of the management board of Austrian Bioimaging and has recently joined the board of the Association for the Promotion of Digital Humanism in Vienna.

Prof. Dr. Elmar Eisemann is a professor at Delft University of Technology, heading the Computer Graphics and Visualization Group. Before he was an associated professor at Telecom ParisTech (until 2012) and a senior scientist in the Cluster of Excellence (Saarland University / MPI Informatik) (until 2009). He studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and received his PhD from the University of Grenoble at INRIA Rhone-Alpes. He spent several research visits abroad; at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2006), Adobe Systems Inc. (2007,2008). His research covers, among others, rendering, visualization, alternative representations, and GPU acceleration techniques. He co-authored the book "Real-time shadows". He was local organizer of EGSR 2010, 2012, 2023, HPG 2012, 2023, and paper chair of HPG 2015, EGSR 2016, GI 2017, PG 2020/2021, and general chair of Eurographics 2018 in Delft. He is a member of the steering committee of EGSR and HPG. His work received several distinction awards, and he was honored with the Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2011 and the Netherlands Prize for ICT Research 2019.