Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Prof Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a Swiss Canadian computer graphics scientist, Director of the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University, and founder and head of the MIRALab Research Laboratory at the University of Geneva.
Thalmann has made early contributions in computer graphics during her PhD by simulating 3D electronic densities of the Schrödinger equation's approximate solutions (1977). Later on, she pioneered the modelling of realistic Virtual Humans, particularly producing the first simulation of a 3D version of Marilyn Monroe in the film Rendez-vous in Montreal (1987) and showing her work at the Modern Art Museum in New York in 1988 along with Canadian computer artists.
She published several landmark papers on facial and body deformation methods and cloth simulation. She made several original contributions in MRI segmentation methods correlated with clinical findings. She also modelled the simulation of Virtual Ballerinas where their hip cartilage deformations can be visualized while dancing. More recently, she has worked on the social autonomous robot Nadine alike of herself that is able to speak, recognize people and gestures, express mood and emotions, and remember actions.
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann received a BS in Psychology, a BS in Biology and a Master in Biochemistry at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Quantum Physics in 1977 from the same University. She was a Professor at the University of Montreal until 1989 and then at the University of Geneva where she founded the laboratory MIRALab.
She is currently Director of the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Thalmann has authored and co-authored more than 500 papers in the area of Virtual Humans, including social robots, VR, and 3D simulation of articulations (CV ). She has participated in more than 45 European research projects and led quite a few of them (CV pages ). Additionally, she is coordinator of the European project Multiscale Human.
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