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Graphics & Geometry Group Graphics & Geometry

Prof. Dr. Mario Botsch

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About me

I’m a full professor in the Computer Science Department at TU Dortmund University, where I head both the Chair of Computer Graphics and the Computer Graphics & Geometry Processing Group. Since 2025, I have also been a Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Before joining TU Dortmund in fall 2020, I was Professor of Computer Graphics at Bielefeld University (2008–2020).

After serving as Vice Dean of the Computer Science Department from 2024 to 2026, I am currently serving as Dean for the 2026–2028 term.

I studied mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, where I received my M.Sc. in 1999. I then started my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics before moving to RWTH Aachen University, where I completed my PhD in computer science in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, I was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich.

My research focuses on the efficient acquisition, discretization, optimization, animation, and visualization of three-dimensional geometric objects. On the theoretical side, we investigate flexible, non-standard geometry discretizations and the associated differential operators. On the applied side, we work on 3D scanning and motion capture of humans, modeling and animation of virtual characters, and real-time visualization in VR environments.

I regularly teach courses on Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Geometric Modeling, and Mathematics for Computer Science. In all of my teaching, I am an avid user and developer of Decker, an open-source tool for interactive HTML-based lecture slides.

More details here: Curriculum Vitae

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