Tim Weissker
Senior Scientist for Virtual Reality
Lead of the VR Research Group
RWTH Aachen University
Kopernikusstraße 6, Room 109
52074 Aachen, Germany
Biography
Tim is a senior scientist for virtual reality at the Visual Computing Institute of RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he is permanently appointed for conducting independent research in the broad area of virtual reality and 3D user interfaces. He leads the Virtual Reality Research Group at the institute, which conducts a diverse mixture of foundational as well as application-oriented research in the field. Tim’s research interests include a large variety of topics on effective, efficient, and comfortable user interaction in both single- and multi-user 3D virtual environments, all of which leverage the unique potential that virtual reality systems offer beyond the mere replication of real-world scenarios.
Research Interests
- 3D Interaction Techniques
- Multi-User Virtual Reality
- Collaborative Work in VR
- Group Navigation in VR
- User Comfort in VR
Education
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Doctor rerum naturalium
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2021
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M.Sc. in Computer Science and Media
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2017
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B.Sc. in Computer Science and Media
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2014
Work Experience
Lead of the Virtual Reality Research Group
Permanent position to conduct research and teaching in the field of Virtual Reality
- Scientific and administrative lead of the Virtual Reality Research Group at the Visual Computing Institute
- Principal Investigator in the project Put me There: A Systematic Investigation of the Foundations of Egocentric Selection-Based Travel in Virtual Reality funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
- Continuation of responsibilities at the Visual Computing Institute mentioned below
- Scientific contributions to the nationally funded research project Virtual Reality Environment for Additive Manufacturing Enabled by 5G of the 5G.NRW funding competition
- Development and conduction of recitations within the Master’s courses Introduction to Virtual Reality and Selected Topics of Virtual Reality
- Development and conduction of annual lecture sessions on Collaboration, Group Navigation, Experimental Design and Virtual Humans as part of the Master’s course Selected Topics of Virtual Reality
- Supervision of seminar theses as part of the proseminar Interaction in Virtual Worlds and the seminar Current Topics in the Field of Virtual Reality
- Supporting supervision of doctoral research projects as well as independent supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses
- Scientific contributions to nationally and internationally funded research projects like the EU Flagship Human-Brain Project, the Thuringian National program ProDigital: MetaReal, and the BMBF projects Big Data Analytics as well as Provenance Analytics
- Development and conduction of recitations within the Master’s course Virtual Reality
- Development and conduction of an annual lecture session on Graphics Basics and Scenegraphs as part of the Master’s course Virtual Reality
- Supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses as well as student semester projects
- Technical administration of the group’s Linux systems and network infrastructure
- Multiple appointments as tutor in the fields of Discrete Mathematics, Information and Coding Theory, Programming Languages, Electrical Engineering and System Theory, and Modeling of Information Systems
- Multiple appointments as research assistant in the field of Virtual Reality
- Multiple appointments as technical assistant in the administration of the Linux systems of the Virtual Reality and Visualization Research Group
Education
First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich
Second Examiner: Prof. Doug A. Bowman
First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich
Second Examiner: Junior-Prof. Dr. Florian Echtler
First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich
Second Examiner: Junior-Prof. Dr. Florian Echtler