Since 2004, Uwe Woessner has headed the visualisation department at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS).
He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 2009. He is a guest professor and lecturer at TU Vienna, TU Austria and HSR in Rapperswil, Switzerland. He is also the cofounder of VirCinity GmbH.
He has received international awards including the 2003 HPC Challenge and 2006 HPC Bandwidth Challenge.
His current research is comprised of collaborative virtual environments for scientific visualisation, augmented reality, 3D user interfaces and interaction techniques for computational steering, interaction with BIM in VR and AR.
He is also a committee member of several VR and 3D User Interface-related conferences including IEEE VR, IEEE Vis, EuroVR, GI VRAR.
