Philipp Urban

Philipp Urban received the M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree from the Hamburg University of Technology in 2005. After working at a software company in the area of digital printing for seven years, he was for 2.5 years a visiting scientist at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory within the Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester NY, USA and headed afterwards a DFG Emmy Noether Research Group at the Institute of Printing Science and Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Since 2013 he has been Head of the Competence Center 3D Printing Technology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt. His research interests include 3D printing, spectral imaging, image quality and material appearance reproduction. He is author of more than 70 publications in international journals and conference proceedings, served as a reviewer for many scientific journals and chaired various national and international conferences.

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