Presenter

Tim Weyrich holds the chair of Digital Reality at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). In addition, he is Professor of Visual Computing in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London, a position I held since 2008. Prior to coming to UCL, he was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Princeton University, working in the Princeton Computer Graphics Group, a post he took after having received his PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2006.

He is a member of the executive committee of Eurographics; member of the steering boards of the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage and of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; steering committee EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre of Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA). He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and is a member of the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography (AHFAP), special interest group Libraries & Archives Imaging; member of EPSRC College, BCS, ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics and of Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Past roles include associate, and then deputy director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (2014–2021); coordinator of the Innovate Training Network (ITN) DISTRO; lead of the REF2021 team of UCL Computer Science; programme director MSc ICT Innovation at UCL; UCL’s university contact within EIT Digital and co-designer of the EIT Digital Master and Doctorate Schools; Associate Editor of Computer Graphics Forum and of Elsevier Computer & Graphics; member of UCL's Athena SWAN Committee Computer Science for the advancement of gender equality.