Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (2009)

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (formerly Nadia Thalmann-Magnenat ) is a Swiss - Canadian computer graphics scientist and university professor. She is director of the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University and both founder and director of the MIRALab research laboratory at the University of Geneva .

biography

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann studied at the University of Geneva and graduated from several degrees. She completed the subjects psychology and biology with a Bachelor of Science and a master’s degree in the field of biochemistry. In 1977 she received her PhD in chemistry under Roger Lacroix at the University of Geneva. Magnenat Thalmann was a professor at the University of Montreal until 1989 and then at the University of Geneva, where she founded and directed the MIRALab laboratory.

She is currently the director of the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Magnenat Thalmann has written around 500 articles in the area of ​​"virtual people". Including articles on social robots, virtual reality and the 3D simulation of articulations (CV) that she wrote or co-authored. She has participated in more than 45 European research projects and has led many of them. In addition, she is the coordinator of the European project Multiscale Human.

research

Magnenat Thalmann already contributed to the development of computer graphics during her doctoral studies by simulating the 3D density of the approximate solutions of the Schrödinger equation (1977). She later developed the modeling of realistic virtual people and mainly produced the first simulation of a 3D version of Marilyn Monroe in the film Rendezvous in Montreal (1987). She showed her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1988 together with Canadian computer artists.

She published several pioneering papers on face and body deformation methods and the simulation of fabrics. She made several original contributions to MRI segmentation methods that correlate with clinical findings. She also designed the simulation of virtual ballerinas, whose movements are modeled on the actual deformation of the hip cartilage when dancing. For some time she has been working on the autonomous robot “Social Robot” Nadine, an image of her own person who is able to speak, recognize people and gestures, express mood and emotions and remember actions.

honors and awards

Magnenat Thalmann received more than 30 honors and awards such as Woman of the Year for her early groundbreaking contributions in computer graphics (Montreal 1987). She recently received a Doctor of Honoris Causa in Natural Sciences from Leibniz University Hannover (2009), an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa (2010) and a Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society in Toronto (2012). In the same year she received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award in Germany, which is awarded to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or insights have had a significant influence on their own discipline and who are likely to continue to achieve outstanding achievements in the future. She has also produced several award-winning films, including “Virtual Marilyn”, which was chosen to celebrate the award of the “Golden Camera” in Berlin. Your film "High Fashion in Equations" won the CGI 2007 Best International Scientific Video Award and was shown in the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater.

Works

• Nadine - Social Robot. Nanyang Technological University, January 1, 2015, accessed June 27, 2017 . 
• Film: Rendezvous in Montreal (1987). MIRALab, May 4, 2007, accessed on June 27, 2017 . 
• La Haute Couture Mise en Equations (from 1990). MIRALAB, October 22, 2007, accessed on June 27, 2017 . 

Web links

• Nadia Magnenat Thalmann on the MIRALab website
• Nadia Thalmann, List of Publications: 2006 to 2016
• Article in Tagesspiegel, Jana Schlütter, Virtual Life (April 11, 2016)
• SRF, Swiss radio and television, reporters: Marc Gieriet, Nadia du Nadine (2016)
• MigrosMagazin, robots like you and me , text: Ralf Kaminski (2016)
• Emma (Ed. Alice Schwarzer ): Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann: Pioneer of Robotics (2015)
• Netzgeflüster (2015): Women in Computer Science , Stefanie Höfig, Magdeburg, August 1, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Title data record of the dissertation , catalog of the Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale , accessed on February 28, 2018.
2. ^ Steven Piguet: Base de données sur les Élites suisses au XXe siècle. Retrieved February 4, 2018 . 
3. ^ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: CV - Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. (No longer available online.) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, January 1, 2015, archived from the original January 13, 2017 ; accessed on June 27, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ University of Hanover: Multiscale Human. University of Hanover, accessed on June 27, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Nadia Magnenat Thalmann: "Nadine a new social Robot", lecture slides 2016. Leibniz Universität Hannover, April 20, 2016, accessed on June 27, 2017 (English). 
6. ↑ Veronika Oechtering: Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. Project "Women in the History of Information Technology", Faculty 3 - Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, December 1, 2001, accessed on June 27, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Prof. Dr. Helmut Schwarz: Research Award from the Alexander Humboldt Foundation. (No longer available online.) Alexander Humboldt Foundation, January 1, 2012, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on June 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.