Presenter

Gunther Weber is a Staff Scientist in LBNL's Computational Research Division and an Adjunct
Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Davis. His research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization, data analysis, topological data analysis methods, parallelization of
visualization algorithms, hierarchical data representation methods, and bioinformatics. Prior to
joining the LBNL Visualization group and the NERSC Analytics team, Gunther worked first as a
postdoctoral scholar and later as a Project Scientist at the Institute for Data Analysis and
Visualization (IDAV) at UC Davis focusing on visualization of three-dimensional gene expression
data (with researchers of LBNL's Genomics and Life Sciences divisions), topological exploration of
scalar data, and visualization of brain imaging data and experimental earthquake data. Gunther
earned his Ph.D. in computer science, with a concentration on graphics and visualization, from the
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2003.