Tim Weissker
Permanent Virtual Reality Researcher at RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTim Weissker is a permanent virtual reality researcher and group lead at RWTH Aachen University's Visual Computing Institute with 12 years of experience advancing VR and 3D user interfaces. He conducts independent, application-focused and foundational research on efficient, comfortable interaction techniques for single- and multi-user immersive environments, emphasizing capabilities unique to VR rather than mere real-world replication. Previously a postdoc and long-term researcher at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, he holds a Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science and combines deep academic training with hands-on teaching. Colleagues value his ability to translate rigorous human-centered insights into practical system designs that improve usability in complex virtual spaces.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor rerum naturalium - Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science, Doctor rerum naturalium - Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
German, English
Github Skills (19)
displays10
rendering9
scale8
guacamole8
large-scale8
webgl7
visualization7
desktop7
virtual-reality7
data-visualization5
kodi2
youtube2
django1
python1
simulation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TimDomino/ptsot
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Electronic version of the "Perspective Taking/Spatial Orientation Test" by Hegarty, Kozhevnikov and Waller
Contributions:18 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
mmbuw/shakecast
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:118 commits in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.