Gitta Domik

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Gitta Domik

Gitta Domik ( Brigitta Domik-Kienegger ; born November 18, 1957 in Graz , Austria) is a computer scientist and university lecturer . Since 1993 she has been head of the computer graphics, visualization and image processing department at the University of Paderborn . Domik is a senior member of IEEE and ACM .

Life

Domik studied at the Technical University of Graz (TU) the subject "Technical Mathematics with a focus on information processing" and graduated in 1981 with a " Dipl-Ing " degree . Subsequently (1982–1985) she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Digital Image Processing and Computer Graphics of the Forschungsgesellschaft Joanneum Graz (today Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH). She received her doctorate from Graz University of Technology in 1985 on the subject of analysis of digital radar images using digital elevation models and image simulation (supervisor Franz Leberl ). From 1986 to 1987 she worked at the start-up Vexcel Corporation in Boulder , Colorado , USA , in the position of scientist and project manager, mainly for research projects in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA . From 1987 to 1992 she worked as a Research Associate at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA), in 1992 and until March 1993 as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, both at the University of Colorado at Boulder . Two visiting professorships fell during this period: the academic year 1990/91 at the Faculty of Computer Science at Graz University of Technology, and in 1992 four months at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna . Since 1993 she has been a professor at the University of Paderborn , where she heads the computer graphics, visualization and image processing department .

Research priorities

Domik's research focuses on application-motivated issues in the areas of computer graphics, visualization and image processing:

  • Volume rendering of medical data
  • Empirical User Studies on Effective Visualization Techniques
  • Empirical User Studies on Effective Navigation Techniques
  • User - adaptive visualizations
  • Analysis of digital radar images for geological, biological and meteorological applications

In particular, she also devoted herself to

  • Visualization Education at Universities, uni- and interdisciplinary

Awards and other functions

  • Winner of the Weierstraß Prize 2002 for excellent teaching at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Paderborn.
  • Appointment as Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2016)
  • Appointment as Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2017)
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal IEEE Computer Graphics and Application from 2011 to 2016.
  • Member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee (since 1992).

At the University of Paderborn she has been the Dean of Studies for the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics since 2015.

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SURNAME Domik, Gitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian computer scientist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria