FRAUNHOFER HHI - Key Persons


Adam Wieckowski

Job Titles:
  • Head of Video Coding Systems Group

Aikaterini Katsarou


Aleixo Cambeiro Barreiro


Alper Schultze


Anastasia Henkel


Antje Williams

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, 5G Campus Networks, Deutsche Telekom AG

Anton Schulte


Arian Beckmann

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Arian Beckmann is a research associate at the "Computer Vision & Graphics" Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI). He graduated in Mathematics at the University of Muenster with a Master of Science in 2021. His research interests include generative modelling, adversarial machine learning, probabilistic machine learning and computer vision. He is currently part of the FakeID project in which he works on the development of AI-based methods for the generation and robust detection of Deepfakes. Likewise, he supports the NeuroHum project in acquiring a deeper understanding of humans perception of virtual avatars.

Arne Finn


Aycan Celik


Baris Göktepe


Benajmin Feder


Benjamin Bross

Job Titles:
  • Head of Video Coding Systems Group

Benjamin Kossack

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate at the Computer Vision
  • Research Associate in the Computer Vision
Benjamin Kossack is a research associate at the Computer Vision & Graphics Group. His R&D activities are related to the following keywords: image and video processing, remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), hyperspectral imaging (HSI), presentation attack detection (PAD), living-skin detection, and Machine Learning for medical application. Benjamin Kossack is a research associate in the Computer Vision & Graphics Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. He graduated with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin in 2019. From 2018 to 2019 he worked as a student assistant in the research projects HistoDect and 3D-Finder. His research interests span from image and video processing to contactless vital sign extraction, modeling in medicine and applying these in medical applications. Education: 10/2016 - 01/2019 M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin).

Birgit Nierula

Job Titles:
  • Projects Publications People and Contact Student Opportunities

Björn Stallenberger


Buket Torun


Christian Bartnik


Christian Jacquemin

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher

Christian Lehmann


Christian Rudat


Christian Stoffers


Christian Weissig


Christoph Ende


Clemens Seibold


Crispin Zawadzki


Csongor Keuer


Daniel Johannes Meyer


David de Felipe Mesquida


David Eduardo Moreno Villamarin


David Przewozny


Detlef Runde


Dr. Christian Helmrich


Dr. Christoph Zindel

Job Titles:
  • Fresenius SE & Co KGaA, Supervisory Board and Member of the Audit Committee

Dr. Gayathri Venugopal


Dr. Gerhard Tech


Dr. Heiner Kirchhoffer


Dr. Jens Brandenburg


Dr. Johannes Regnier


Dr. Kanjar De


Dr. Martin Winken


Dr. Michael Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research Ericsson Eurolab

Dr. Oliver Schreer


Dr. Philipp Merkle


Dr. rer. nat. Jonathan Pfaff

Job Titles:
  • Head of Video Coding Technologies Group

Dr. Tatiana Rykova


Dr. Thomas Engel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Principal Key Expert Research Scientist "Sensoren Und Optische Technologien", Corporate Technology, Siemens AG

Dr. Álvaro López


Dr.-Ing. Anna Hilsmann

Job Titles:
  • Head of Vision & Imaging Technologies Department / Head of Computer Vision & Graphics Group

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Glingener

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operation Officer, ADVA Optical Networking SE

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Kottke

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Dr.-Ing. Cornelius Hellge

Job Titles:
  • Expert
  • Head of Multimedia Communications Group

Dr.-Ing. Heike Prasse

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Department for Communication Systems and IT Security at the Federal Ministry of Education

Dr.-Ing. Heiko Schwarz

Job Titles:
  • Head of Video Coding Technologies

Dr.-Ing. Kai Habel

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Dr.-Ing. Michael Peter

Job Titles:
  • Head of Mm - Wave Group

Dr.-Ing. Ramez Askar

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head of Mm - Wave Group

Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Bosse

Job Titles:
  • Head of Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schierl

Job Titles:
  • Head of Video Communication and Applications Department

Dr.-Ing. Werner Mohr

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research Alliances, Nokia Solutions and Networks Management International GmbH

Dr.-Ing. Yago Sanchez de la Fuente


Eric Wisotzky


Fangwen Shu


Felix Zailskas


Florian Barthel


Florian Borzekowski


Florian Eisenreich


Fritjof Steinert


Gabriel Hege


Georgi Lazarov


Ingo Feldmann

Job Titles:
  • Head of Immersive Media & Communication Group
  • Ingo

Jakob Reck


Jan Kirsten


Jangwoo Son


Jannes S. Magnusson

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate at the Computer Vision
Jannes S. Magnusson is a research associate at the Computer Vision & Graphics Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI. He graduated in Computer Science at the Technische Universität Berlin with a Master of Science in 2021. His R&D activities are related to the following keywords: computer vision, machine learning, graph deep learning.

Johannes Künzel

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate at the Computer Vision
Johannes Künzel is a Research Associate at the Computer Vision & Graphics group in the Vision and Imaging Technologies Department. He joined the group as a Research Associate in 2016. His research interests are camera pose estimation, the registration of high-definition 3D models, and the strengthening of computer vision algorithms against the influence of challenging weather conditions. He received a B.Sc. degree in 2014 and an M.Sc. degree in 2016 from Ilmenau Technical University.

Justin Kappheide


Karam Dawoud


Karsten Sühring


Klara Mihov


Laurids von Emden


Lisa Kausch

Job Titles:
  • German Cancer Research Center

Lukas Klapproth

Job Titles:
  • Student Members

Madeleine Weigel


Marcel Amberg


Marco-Alexander Breit

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies Working Group, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Marcus Zepp


Mark Palkow


Martin Klaudiny

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher / Disney Research

Martin Kresse


Mathis Schmieder


Michael Schäfer


Milena Teresa Bagdasarian


Moritz Kleinert


Moustafa Ghaddar


Mustafa Tevfik Lafci


Nasim Jamshidi


Navid Najar


Niclas Kullig


Niels-Niklas Neumann


Nikita Kovalenko


Niklas Gard


Niklas Schelten


Nils Henrik Seitz


Norbert Keil

Job Titles:
  • Head of Hybrid Integration and Sensing Department / Head of Hybrid PICs Group

Paul Chojecki


Paul Haase


Petra Dziallas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to Institute Management

Philipp Helle


Philipp Kreowsky


Philipp Winklhofer


Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director Global Public Health, Hasso - Plattner - Institute

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martin Schell

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Prof. Dr. Susanne Stürmer

Job Titles:
  • President, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Benno Stabernack

Job Titles:
  • Head of Embedded Systems Group

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Eisert

Job Titles:
  • Head of Vision & Imaging Technologies Department

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wiegand

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Raghu Chaliganti


Robert Skupin


Santiago de Luxán Hernández


Sebastian Zimmermann


Sergio Tejeda Pastor

Job Titles:
  • Pastor

Sindi Ruci


Soonbin Lee


Sophie Pientka


Steffen Günther


Sven Wittig


Sylvain Renault


Thomas Fehrenbach


Thomas Koch


Tianwen Qian


Tilmann Ripke


Tobias Hinz


Tomás Malheiros Borges


Tung Nguyen


Ulrich Barth

Job Titles:
  • Leader
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Head of Mobile Network Performance & Optimization Research

Ulrike Helfferich

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer, EPIC - European Photonics Industry Consortium

Valeri George


Vera Sikes

Job Titles:
  • Senior Technical Government Director, Federal Office for Information Security

Vignesh Menon


Viktor Herrmann


Wieland Morgenstern


Zhuo Chen