Place of Birth

Nationality

Niklas Röber

Magdeburg

Federal Republic of Germany

July 1993

Aug. 1993 – July 1994

Oct. 1994 – Sep. 1996 

Oct. 1996 – Jan. 2003                     

Sep. 1999 – March 2000            

March 2002 – Dec. 2002            

January 2003

July 2003 – Jan. 2006                                                                                      

Feb. 2006 – Jan 2008                                                                                       

Feb. 2003 – July 2008

Sep. 2008 

Sep. 2008 – Jan. 2009                                                                       

February 2009

Oct. 2010 – Sep. 2013                        

since May 2009 

Highschool Graduation

Military Service, 2.FSchJgBtl.263 (paratroops), 12 Month

Study of Geodesy, 4 Semesters, Technical University Dresden

Study of Computational Visualistics, 12 Semesters,  Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Internship - Medical Imaging Research Group, 7 Month, University of British Columbia, Canada

Sabbatical and Thesis writing at the GrUVi Lab, 10 Month, Simon-Fraser University, Canada

Graduation as Dipl.-Ing. for Computational Visualistics (Grade 1.3)

PhD Scholarship and Research Position, Computer Games Research Group, Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

PhD Student and Research Position, Computer Games Research Group, Department of   Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

PhD Scholarship (SAP University Competence Center)

PhD Thesis Submission 

Member Computational Visualistics / Software Engineering Group, Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

PhD Defense (magna cum laude) 

MBA (Finance & Controlling), 6 Semesters, Fernuniversität Hagen and University of Wales

Member Scientific Staff German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ)

Programming

 
Interests / Expertise                    

3D Modeling

Image, Video, Audio                    

Text / Misc

OS

Sports / Hobbies

German (native), English (fluent), Spanish, French

C/C++, OpenGL, OpenAL, Qt, Cg, VTK, Smalltalk, IDL, DirectX, AM:3D, PhysX, Delphi 

Computer Graphics, GPGPU/CUDA Programming, Scientific Visualization, Simulation, Sound & Acoustics, Signal Processing, Game Development

3D Studio MAX, Maya

Photoshop, Premiere, AfterEffects, combustion*, gimp, Soundforge, Cakewalk

LaTeX, MS-Office, MathCAD

Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac

Climbing, Race Bike Cycling, Rowing, Outdoors, Old Cars, Arts