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Bickel Group

Computer Graphics and Digital Fabrication

We are currently witnessing the emergence of novel, computer-controlled output devices that provide revolutionary possibilities for fabricating complex, functional, multi-material objects and meta-materials with stunning optical and mechanical properties. Leveraging the potential of advanced 3D printing technology is tightly coupled to efficient methods for content creation.

Bernd Bickel is a computer scientist interested in computer graphics and its overlap into animation, biomechanics, material science, and digital fabrication. The main objective of his research group is to push the boundaries of how functional digital models can be efficiently created, simulated, and reproduced. Given the digital nature of the process, three factors play a central role: computational models and efficient representations that facilitate intuitive design, accurate and fast simulation techniques, and intuitive authoring tools for physically realizable objects and materials. Accordingly, the work of the Bickel group focuses on two closely related challenges: (1) developing novel modeling and simulation methods, and (2) investigating efficient representation and editing algorithms for materials and functional objects.




Team


Current Projects

Computational synthesis of metamaterials | Soft robotics |Interactive design systems | Design of cyber-physical systems


Publications

Chen B, Jindal A, Piovarci M, Wang C, Seidel HP, Didyk P, Myszkowski K, Serrano A, Mantiuk RK. 2023. The effect of display capabilities on the gloss consistency between real and virtual objects. Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Conference. SIGGRAPH: Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, 90. View

Rao P, Mallikarjun BR, Fox G, Weyrich T, Bickel B, Pfister H, Matusik W, Zhan F, Tewari A, Theobalt C, Elgharib M. 2023. A deeper analysis of volumetric relightiable faces. International Journal of Computer Vision. View

Makatura L, Wang B, Chen Y-L, Deng B, Wojtan C, Bickel B, Matusik W. 2023. Procedural metamaterials: A unified procedural graph for metamaterial design. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(5), 168. View

Hafner C, Bickel B. 2023. The design space of Kirchhoff rods. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(5), 171. View

Velicky P, Miguel Villalba E, Michalska JM, Lyudchik J, Wei D, Lin Z, Watson J, Troidl J, Beyer J, Ben Simon Y, Sommer CM, Jahr W, Cenameri A, Broichhagen J, Grant SGN, Jonas PM, Novarino G, Pfister H, Bickel B, Danzl JG. 2023. Dense 4D nanoscale reconstruction of living brain tissue. Nature Methods. 20, 1256–1265. View

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Career

Since 2020 Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2015 – 2020 Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2012 – 2014 Research Scientist and Research Group Leader, Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland
2011 – 2012 Visiting Professor, TU Berlin, Germany
2011 – 2012 Postdoc, Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland
2010 PhD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Selected Distinctions

2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
2016 ERC Starting Grant
2015 Microsoft Visual Computing Award
2012 EUROGRAPHICS Best PhD Thesis
2011 ETH Medal for outstanding dissertation


Additional Information

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