Former Groups

The success of the initial program phase of the Max Planck Center (2003 – 2009) has far exceeded the initial expectations. The flexibility of the virtual institute concept has allowed a highly dynamic research program to blossom and remain fresh through the continuous influx of new postdocs and Ph.D. students. Not only has a young elite of researchers returned to Germany after a period of productive research and intellectual growth, the majority of postdocs working in the Center has now won faculty appointments or senior researcher positions in industry in Germany or elsewhere.

You can find their current websites listed below, or visit their former research group profiles through the right-hand navigation.

Former Researchers

Vahid Babaei

Vahid Babaei

intern extern

Computation, Appearance and Manufacturing

Tamay Aykut

Tamay Aykut

intern extern

Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence

Michael Zollhöfer

Michael Zollhöfer

intern extern

Facebook Reality Labs

Mykhaylo Andriluka

Mykhaylo Andriluka

intern extern

Google Inc., Germany

Roland Angst

Roland Angst

intern extern

ASUS Corp.

Renjie  Chen

Renjie Chen

intern extern

Images and Geometry

Pierpaolo Baccichet

Pierpaolo Baccichet

intern extern

Dropbox, San Francisco, USA

Volker Blanz

Volker Blanz

intern extern

Media Informatics, University of Siegen, Germany

Martin Bokeloh

Martin Bokeloh

intern extern

Google Inc., Germany

Adrian Butscher

Adrian Butscher

intern extern

Autodesk Research, Toronto, CA

Vera Demberg

Vera Demberg

intern extern

Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, Saarland University

Elmar Eisemann

Elmar Eisemann

intern extern

Computer Graphics and Visualization, TU Delft

Markus Flierl

Markus Flierl

intern extern

KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Stefan Funke

Stefan Funke

intern extern

Institute of Formal Methods in Computer Science, Division of Algorithmic, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Joachim Giesen

Joachim Giesen

intern extern

Theoretical Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Stefan Gumhold

Stefan Gumhold

intern extern

Computergraphics and Visualization, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany

Klaus Hildebrandt

Klaus Hildebrandt

intern extern

TU Delft, Computer Graphics and Visualization

Matthias Hullin

Matthias Hullin

intern extern

University Bonn, Germany

Ivo Ihrke

Ivo Ihrke

intern extern

INRIA Bordeaux, France

Andreas Karrenbauer

Andreas Karrenbauer

intern extern

Discrete Optimization

Michael Kerber

Michael Kerber

intern extern

Institute of Geometry, TU Graz

Haricharan Lakshman

Haricharan Lakshman

intern extern

Facebook Research

Hendrik Lensch

Hendrik Lensch

intern extern

Computer Graphics, Tübingen University, Germany

Yangyan Li

Yangyan Li

intern extern

Alibaba AI Labs

Marcus Magnor

Marcus Magnor

intern extern

Computer Graphics, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Dominik Michels

Dominik Michels

intern extern

Professor for Computer Science, KAUST

Meinard Müller

Meinard Müller

intern extern

AudioLabs, University Erlangen

Matthias Niessner

Matthias Niessner

intern extern

TU Munich, Computer Science Dept.

Antti Oulasvirta

Antti Oulasvirta

intern extern

Aalto University, Finnland

Sören Pirk

Sören Pirk

intern extern

Kiel University

Erik Reinhard

Erik Reinhard

intern extern

Technicolor Research and Innovation, Rennes, France

Tobias Ritschel

Tobias Ritschel

intern extern

University College of London, Dept. of Computer Science

Bodo Rosenhahn

Bodo Rosenhahn

intern extern

Automated Image Interpretation, Leibniz-University of Hannover, Germany

Mike Sips

Mike Sips

intern extern

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Michael Stark

Michael Stark

intern extern

Vicarious Inc.

Jürgen Steimle

Jürgen Steimle

intern extern

Human-Computer Interaction, Saarland University

Markus Steinberger

Markus Steinberger

intern extern

GPU Computing and Visualization, TU Graz, Austria

Carsten Stoll

Carsten Stoll

intern extern

Research Scientist, Facebook Research

Robert Strzodka

Robert Strzodka

intern extern

Application Specific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Holger Theisel

Holger Theisel

intern extern

Visual Computing, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Christian Theobalt

Christian Theobalt

intern extern

Graphics, Vision & Video, Max Planck Institute for Informatics & Saarland University, Germany

Thorsten Thormählen

Thorsten Thormählen

intern extern

Graphics and Multimedia, Philipps University Marburg, Germany

Péter Vajda

Péter Vajda

intern extern

Facebook, Inc.

Michael Wand

Michael Wand

intern extern

Visual Computing, Universität Mainz, Germany

Martin Wicke

Martin Wicke

intern extern

eddy systems, San Francisco, CA

Thomas Wiegand

Thomas Wiegand

intern extern

Image Processing & Image Communication, Heinrich Hertz Institute & TU Berlin, Germany

Tino Weinkauf

Tino Weinkauf

intern extern

Visualisation Studio, KTH Stockholm

Stefanie Wuhrer

Stefanie Wuhrer

intern extern

INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France