Biography
Ivan Viola received an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Dipl.-Ing.) in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Dr. techn.) in 2005 from TU Wien, Austria. In 2006, he joined the University of Bergen (UiB), Norway, as a postdoctoral researcher and contributed to the establishment of a new visualization research group at UiB’s Department of Informatics.
In 2008, Viola was promoted to associate professor and, in 2011, to full professor at the University of Bergen (UiB). During this period, he also served as a scientific adviser at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Norway.
Throughout his career, he has received numerous honors and recognitions for his contributions to computing visualization, including the Austrian Computer Graphics Award in 2016, the Eurographics Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine in 2013 and three Best Paper Honorable Mention awards at the IEEE VIS conference.
Aside from serving as an area or program chair at conferences such as the IEEE Visualization Conference, EuroVis, and Eurographics, Viola has been a reviewer and IPC member for several conferences in computer graphics and visualization. He was an associate editor of the Computer Graphics Forum journal and is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
In addition to co-authoring over a hundred scientific papers, he is a member of Eurographics and the IEEE Computer Society’s Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC).
Research Interests
Viola’s research group seeks to develop next-generation computer graphics and technologies for visualizing life forms in all scales. Focusing on scalable approaches, the research group introduces new methods to model, construct and visualize the entire complex biological cell to atomistic detail. This technology allows people to interact, explore, study and understand life at the nanoscale.
