Head

Administrative Assistant

Jessi Endress
(Temporarily out of office)

Research Leaders and Postdoctoral Researchers

Jan Eric Lenssen
Collaborating Research Leader at MPI-Informatics
István Sárándi
March'23 - x

PhD Students

Niklas Berndt
September'24 - x
Yue Chen
July'23 - x
(Jointly supervised with Yuliang Xiu)
Enes Duran
Nov'25 - x
(Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger)
Yannan He
November'22 - x
Berna Kabadayi
April'22 - x
(Jointly supervised with Justus Thies)
Nikita Kister
April'22 - x
(Jointly supervised with Anna Khoreva)
Chuqiao Li
July'23 - x
(Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger)
(Internship at NVIDIA)
Eyvaz Najafli
July'25 - x
Namma Pearl
July'23 - x
(Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger)
Ilya A. Petrov
May'21 - x
Andrea Sanchietti
December'24 - x
Xianghui Xie
April'23 - x
Pradyumna YM
Feb'26 - x

Visiting PhD Students

Youwang Kim
October'23 - March'24
PhD at POSTECH

Former Postdoctoral and Affiliated Researchers

Riccardo Marin
Now at CVG,TUM

Former PhD Students

Thiemo Alldieck
2020: Co-supervised PhD with M. Magnor, TU-Braunschweig.
Summa Cum Laude
Now at Google Zurich
Bharat Lal Bhatnagar
2023: Graduated from Saarland University with Summa Cum Laude.
Now at Meta-Zurich
Vladimir Guzov
Now at Apple
Aymen Mir
Now at KAUST
Garvita Tiwari
Now at SpAItialAI
Yuxuan Xue
Stealth Startup
Xiaohan Zhang
Now at EpicGames
Keyang Zhou
Now at Meta
Timo von Marcard
2019: Co-supervised PhD with B. Rosenhahn, University of Hannover. Summa Cum Laude .
Now at Simi

Current Master/Bachelor Students

  • Batuhan Ozcomlecki, March'24-, 3D Gaussian Splatting for human modeling, [Master's thesis]
  • Agniv Sharma, May'24-, Text to 3D Human Object Interaction, [Master's thesis]
  • Frieder Wallner, Sept.'24-, Blending human into the scene with realistic rendering, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Junyu Zhang, Dec'24-, Physics-enhanced human object and scene modelling, [Research Project]
  • César Díaz Blanco, Jan'25-, Clothing Apperance Modeling, [Research Project]
  • Daniel Eskandar, Jan'25-, Multi-layer Gaussian Splatting for Avatars, [Research Project]
  • Former Master/Bachelor Students and Interns

  • Pradyumna YM, SS25, Human-Scene Reconstruction from Single Images, [Now PhD Student at RVH group]
  • Mattia Masiero, April'25, Ordered Point Cloud Diffusion for 3D Human Registration, [Master's thesis]
  • Dennis Perret, April'25, Holistic hand object interaction and appearance modelling, [Master's thesis]
  • Samuel Zink, December'24, Open Vocabulary 3D Clothing Segmentation, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • César Díaz Blanco, WS24-25, Dynamic Gaussian Visualizer, [ML practicum]
  • Daniel Eskandar, WS24-25, Dynamic Gaussian Visualizer, [ML practicum]
  • Margaret Kostyrko, Nov'24, 3D generative model for humans, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Yunhan Wang, WS24-25, Exploring the generalization of human reconstruction from point clouds, [ML practicum]
  • Mattia Masiero, SS24, SMPL augmentation library, [ML practicum]
  • Enes Duran, SS24, SMPL augmentation library (ML practicum), [Now PhD Student at RVH group]
  • Tuan Tran, September'24, Distilling Pretrained Diffusion Priors for Object Animation, [Master's thesis]
  • Han Cheng, Aug'24, Connecting human motion with visual language modeling, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Yunus Saracoglu, September'23, Contact prediction from wearable sensors, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Janik Jehkul, April'23, Spatial Constraints on Diffusion Models, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Dimitrije Antic, January'23, 3D Clothing Segmentation, [Now PhD student at University of Amsterdam]
  • Yun Kuan Su, May'23-September'23, Matching/representation of partial point clouds, [HiWi]
  • Shuo Wen, January'23, 3D Generation of Humans, [Master's thesis]
  • Xianghui Xie, December'22, Capturing Human Object Interaction from Single RGB Camera, [Now PhD Student at RVH group]
  • Chaitanya Patel, October'19, Predicting Clothing in 3D as a Function of Human Pose, Shape and Garment Style, [Now PhD student at Stanford University]
  • Zhou Liao, August'19, Predicting Clothing in 3D as a Function of Human Pose, Shape and Garment Style, [Now PhD student at HKU]