Tim Weissker
Postdoctoral Researcher
RWTH Aachen University
Kopernikusstraße 6, Room 109
52074 Aachen, Germany
Biography
I am currently a senior scientist for virtual reality at the Visual Computing Institute of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. I received my doctoral degree in 2021 from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where I conducted research on the design and evaluation of group navigation techniques in multi-user virtual reality. Since then, my research interests have broadened to include a large variety of topics on effective, efficient, and comfortable user interaction in both single- and multi-user 3D virtual environments.
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
Education
Doctor rerum naturalium
Thesis: Group Navigation in Multi-User Virtual Reality
First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich
Second Examiner: Prof. Doug A. Bowman
First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich
Second Examiner: Prof. Doug A. Bowman
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Media
Thesis: Navigation in Immersive Virtual Reality: The Effects of Steering and Jumping Techniques on Spatial Updating
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
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Media
Thesis: Konfigurierbare und generische Applikationsinfrastrukturen für 3D-Multi-User-Multi-Display-Umgebungen in der Virtuellen Realität
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
Work Experience
Senior Scientist for Virtual Reality
Permanent position to conduct research and teaching in the field of Virtual Reality
- 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
Postdoctoral Researcher
- 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
Research Fellow
- 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
Student Assistant
- 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