Christof Rezk Salama has studied computer science at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2002 he received a PhD at the
Computer Graphics Group in Erlangen as a scholarship holder at the
graduate college "3D Image Analysis and Synthesis". Since October
2003 he is working as assistant professor at the Computer Graphics and
Multimedia Group at the University of Siegen, Germany.
The results of his research have been presented at international conferences, including SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, MICCAI and Graphics Hardware. His PhD thesis is titled "Volume Rendering Techniques for General Purpose Graphics Hardware" was nominated for the dissertation award of the GI (the "German ACM") and has won the dissertation award of the German Staedtler Foundation. The volume rendering software OpenQVis that he started as a research project is now open source and has recently won a software innovation award from the German government.
He is regularly holding lectures and teaching courses and seminars on computer graphics, scientific visualization, character animation and graphics programming. He has gained practical experience in applying computer graphics to several scientific projects in medicine, geology and archaeology.
The results of his research have been presented at international conferences, including SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, MICCAI and Graphics Hardware. His PhD thesis is titled "Volume Rendering Techniques for General Purpose Graphics Hardware" was nominated for the dissertation award of the GI (the "German ACM") and has won the dissertation award of the German Staedtler Foundation. The volume rendering software OpenQVis that he started as a research project is now open source and has recently won a software innovation award from the German government.
He is regularly holding lectures and teaching courses and seminars on computer graphics, scientific visualization, character animation and graphics programming. He has gained practical experience in applying computer graphics to several scientific projects in medicine, geology and archaeology.