2015 / 11 / 30	I joined the Computational Photography group at Facebook Research. Today was my first day at work!
2015 / 06 / 12	I will receive the SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award this year.
2015 / 05 / 21	We received the best paper award at MobiSys 2015 for our cloud gaming work.
2015 / 05 / 14	We just released our Hyperlapse apps for Android, Windows Phone, and Windows Desktop. Wow, so much work went into this. Over 1000x faster than the SIGGRAPH version... Enjoy!
2015 / 04 / 22	Check out our two new papers at Eurographics 2015: Self Tuning Texture Optimization and Distilled Collections from Textual Image Queries.
2015 / 02 / 12	Our paper on speculative rendering was accepted to MobiSys 2015.
2014 / 08 / 09	Our work on First-person Hyperlapse Videos is now online.
2014 / 06 / 19	We won a best demo award at MobiSys 2014 for our demo on speculative rendering for cloud gaming.
2014 / 03 / 27	Two new papers accepted to SIGGRAPH 2014: "First-person Hyperlapse Videos" and "Image Completion using Planar Structure Guidance". More details coming soon.
2013 / 05 / 15	I received the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award this year.

I am a research scientist at Facebook Research in Seattle. Before, I spend 7 wonderful years working at Microsoft Research. Prior to coming to the Pacific Northwest I got a Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz. I received the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award in 2013 and the SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2015. Originally I am from Hamburg, a beautiful city in northern Germany.

2015 – present	Research Scientist, Facebook, Seattle
2008 – 2015	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.