Current Research Focus

In our workgroup we are currently discussing the presentation of our research and the definition of topics for student theses (e.g. for bachelor, master, or diploma). Therefore, each member of our workgroup lists his/hers personal research interests.

Here are mine:

• Scientific visualization
  • No volume rendering and no flow visualization (there are enough other people doing that)
  • Visualization of particle-based data, e.g. from molecular dynamics (continuation of my Ph.D. thesis, becaue there are enough open questions left)
  • Efficient rendering and high visual quality
  • Development of new abstract visual methophors to aid the understanding of the data
• Visualization of dynamic data
  • Not restricted to data from classical scientific visualization, but also for abstract data known from information visualization
  • Even data from high dimensional spaces (mostly spaces with “geometric” properties, e.g. physical phase spaces)
  • Visual analysis of dynamic properties through static representations
• Softwaren engineering for visualization research prototypes
  • For publications almost every time only proof-of-concept prototypes are written; quick and dirty, which makes is almost impossible to maintain them
  • For large scientific projects often larger software is required
  • Large software in the academia almost always failes. Why?

Of course, I am also interested in a lot of other things, practically almost everything. But one has to focus, right. Well, these three topics are such wide, that it should not be called a focus. Whatever. I call it that way. This is my research focus.