Welcome for Matthew McGinity as a junior professor of immersive media design

Since 1^st February, Matthew McGinity has held the Junior Professorship for Immersive Media Design at the Institute for Software and Multimedia Technology, established as part of the Tenure Track Program. His teaching and research interests include various aspects of immersive media, ranging from the perceptual and cognitive foundations of immersive experience, to development of novel immersive multi-user systems, and applications of virtual and augmented reality in the fields of data visualisation, archaeology, museums, education and the creative arts.

Jun. Professor Matthew McGinity received a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne in 1996 and a Bachelor of Computing Honours degree from Monash University in Melbourne a year later. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2014. He has over 20 years’ professional experience creating immersive and interactive systems in industry, academia and the creative arts, from creating computer games or immersive museum exhibitions, to developing astronaut training simulations at the European Space Agency. He has taught at the University of New South Wales, and more recently at the University of Würzburg in the field of media informatics. His creative works have been exhibited world-wide, in such venues as the ZKM, the Sydney Biennale, the Festival d’Avignon, the Seville Biennale of Contemporary Art, Chronos Centre Beijing, and the Roma Europa and Shanghai eArts festivals.

Originally from Tasmania, Australia, he arrives at TU Dresden by way of London, Leiden, Paris, Sydney and Berlin. We are pleased to Matthew to the Faculty of Computer Science.