2013 / 07 / 23:	Two new papers at SIGGRAPH Asia 2013: "Image-Based Rendering in the Gradient Domain" and "Content-Adaptive Image Downscaling".
2013 / 05 / 15:	I received the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award this year.
2013 / 04 / 04:	My first publication in a computer vision venue (CVPR 2013), check it out!
2013 / 03 / 01:	Our work on transformation guided image completion is accepted to ICCP 2013.
2012 / 10 / 04:	A new publication in the new Siggraph Asia "Technical Briefs" program.
2012 / 08 / 15:	Two new papers accepted to Siggraph Asia 2012 :-) Image completion and comics.
2012 / 03 / 27:	Our work on IBR with reflections was accepted to Siggraph 2012.

I am a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond. Before I came to Seattle I got a Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz. Originally I am from Hamburg, a beautiful city in northern Germany.

2008 – present	Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond
2005 – 2008	Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany
2003 – 2005	Masters in CS, University of Hamburg, Germany
2000 – 2003	B.Sc. in CS, University of Hamburg, Germany

My research is mainly in the area of Computer Graphics, but these days I am also heavily influenced by my great collegues at MSR who work mostly in Computer Vision and on User Experiences. If you look at my publications list below you will see that I have worked on many different topics, but generally I am more interested in pixels than meshes.

See below for a lists of my publications, and other professional activities.

While I grew up in a completely flat part of the world, I developed a big passion for climbing Washington's mountains since I got here. The state is just amazing for climbers: within a few hours you can leave your everyday life completely behind and get into vast glaciated landscapes with serious mountaineering objectives. On my climbing page I post a few pictures from recent trips.