Tim Weyrich holds the chair of Digital Reality at FAU‘s department of computer science and is a associate member of the FAU department for digital humanities and social studies. In addition, he retains a part-time assignment as Professor of Visual Computing in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), a position he originally held until 2021, after coming to UCL in 2008. In an earlier life, 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. His research interests include content creation, computational photography, appearance modelling and fabrication, point-based graphics, cultural heritage analysis and digital humanities. He is a member of the executive committee of Eurographics; member of the steering board of the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage; member of EPSRC College, BCS, ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics and of Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Past roles include co-founder and Associate, later Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (2014–2021); coordinator of the Innovate Training Network (ITN) DISTRO; member of the steering committee EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre of Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA); 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 IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), of Computer Graphics Forum and of Elsevier Computer & Graphics; member of the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography (AHFAP), special interest group Libraries & Archives Imaging; member of UCL’s Athena SWAN Committee Computer Science.

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