Homepage of Dr. Sebastian Grottel
Former PostDoc/Researcher at the Computer Graphics and Visualization Group
Institute of Software and Multimedia Technology
Faculty of Computer Science – TU Dresden
Curriculum Vitae
| 05/2012 - 05/2017 | Researcher and teaching associate, Computer Graphics and Visualization Group, TU Dresden, Germany |
| 03/2012 |
Ph.D. in computer science (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 04/2006 – 03/2012 | Researcher and Ph.D. student at the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart and Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
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Research period (funded by DAAD), Prof. João Comba at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 06/2008 – 07/2008 |
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| 11/2005 | Diploma Thesis (equivalent “M.Sc.”) “Visualisierung von Clusterfluktuationen über Zeit” (German) at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
Research Focus
- Scientific visualization
- Representation and time-independent visual, semi-automatic analysis of very large time-dependent data sets
- Visual Analysis of particle-based data
- Interactive 3D graphics
Scientific Activities
- Member IEEE
- Program Committee EnvirVis 2014, 2015, BELIV 2016
- Dresden CUDA Center of Excellence
- Boltzmann Zuse Society for Computational Molecular Engineering
Active reviewer for many conferences and journals in the field of computer graphics and visualization: (excerpt) IEEE Vis, IEEE PacificVis, EuroVis, EuroGraphics, CGF, CGA, VMV
Awards
- Winning Entry to the IEEE SciVis Contest 2016
- Ph.D. Thesis honored with the SFB 716 Ph.D. Award 2012
Projects
ScaDS – Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions Dresden/Leipzig
Project period: since 2014
http://www.scads.de
The “Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions Dresden/Leipzig” (ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig) combines the competences of TU Dresden and Univ. Leipzig for an holistic approach to the big data challenges in different fields of scientific and economic applications.
VICCI – Visual and Interactive Cyber-Physical Systems Control and Integration
Project period: 2012 – 2014
http://www.vicci.eu
The ESF-funded junior research group VICCI deals with the development, control and integration of cyber physical systems (CPS) at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Dresden University of Technology. The scope includes smart home environments and supporting people in the ambient assisted living.
DFG Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 716 – Dynamic simulation of systems with large particle numbers
Project period: since 2007, personal involvement until 2012
http://www.sfb716.uni-stuttgart.de/
Focus of the collaborative research center (SFB 716) is the development of dynamic simulation methods for systems with large particle numbers for use in industrial research and further development in future. Large datasets of particle data like the ones generated in SFB 716 still pose a big challenge for visual analyzing methods. Subproject D.3 faces the challenge of visualizing large, time-dependent particle datasets. To this end, an extensible and adoptable visualization framework has been developed during the first funding period: MegaMol.
MegaMol™
Project period: since 2006
http://megamol.org
MegaMol is a visualization middleware for rendering of point-based molecular data sets. This software was developed in the SFB 716 at the University of Stuttgart. It is the foundation of the work of multiple Ph.D. students for development of high-performance visualization prototypes and for development of visualization applications.
S. Grottel, M. Krone, C. Müller, G. Reina and T. Ertl, "MegaMol—A Prototyping Framework for Particle-Based Visualization," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 201-214, Feb. 1 2015.
Doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2350479
MegaMol is continuously and actively developed and in use at multiple locations.
Additional project related to MegaMol: Vislib, PerformancePeon and MolCloud.
Teaching
I am advising student works in the field of scientific visualization and computer graphics. Topics for Beleg-, Diplom-, bachelor and master theses can be found in this website. You can also find info of completed works by students. All topic I am advising are based on my research field. However, I can also be advisor for other interesting topics. Just bring your ideas to me.
Winter Term 2016/17
- Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung (scientific visualization)
- Hochparallele Simulationsrechnung mit CUDA und OpenCL (highly parallel simulation with CUDA and OpenCL)
Summer Term 2016
- C++-Programmierung für Computergraphik (C++ programming for computer graphics)
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Komplexpraktikum: Powerwall-Spiel für das ganze Publikum (practical course graphical computing – Powerwall game for the whole audience)
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Hauptseminar Computergraphik und Visualisierung (seminar on graphics and visualization)
Winter Term 2015/16
- Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung (scientific visualization)
- Hochparallele Simulationsrechnung mit CUDA und OpenCL (highly parallel simulation with CUDA and OpenCL)
Summer Term 2015
- C++-Programmierung für Computergraphik (C++ programming for computer graphics)
Winter Term 2014/15
- Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung (scientific visualization)
- Hochparallele Simulationsrechnung mit CUDA und OpenCL (highly parallel simulation with CUDA and OpenCL)
- Komplexpraktikum Graphische Datenverarbeitung - Indirekte Steuerung eines Roboterarms mittels Kinect (practical course graphical computing – Indirect Control of a Robot Arm using Kinect)
Summer Term 2014
- C++-Programmierung für Computergraphik (C++ programming for computer graphics)
Winter Term 2013/14
- Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung (scientific visualization)
- Hochparallele Simulationsrechnung mit CUDA und OpenCL (highly parallel simulation with CUDA and OpenCL)
Summer Term 2013
- C++-Programmierung für Computergraphik (C++ programming for computer graphics)
Winter Term 2012/13
- Komplexpraktikum Graphische Datenverarbeitung – Implementierung eines Laser-Zeige-Systems (practical course graphical computing – Implementing a laser-pointing system)
Summer Term 2012
- Hauptseminar Graphische Datenverarbeitung (seminar on graphical computing)