PD Dr. habil. Matthias Harders
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Matthias Harders is lecturer and senior researcher at the Computer Vision Lab of ETH Zurich, and leader of the Virtual Reality in Medicine Group. Current research focuses on surgical simulation (HystSim), human computer interaction with medical data, and haptic interfaces.
He studied Computer Science with focus Medical Informatics at the University of Hildesheim, Technical University of Braunschweig, and University of Houston. He finished his doctoral thesis on visual-haptic medical segmentation at ETH Zurich in 2002. He completed the habilitation at ETH Zurich in 2007. For his work he has received the ETH-TIT Award 2003 and the CAOS Award 2006. Moreover, he is co-founder of the EuroHaptics conference, the EuroHaptics Society, and the IEEE RAS/CS Haptics Technical Committee. He is also the co-founder of the ETH spin-off company VirtaMed which focuses on commercializing surgical training systems.
