Barbara Solenthaler and team win Frontiers of Science Award
Professor Barbara Solenthaler (D-INFK) and her co-authors were awarded the prize in the category Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences. The Frontiers of Science Award is given every year to recent papers recognised for a major breakthrough in their fields.
Professor Barbara Solenthaler and a team of researchers from ETH Zurich along with external collaborators has been awarded one of this year's Frontiers of Science Awards. The award-winning paper, titled Deep Fluids: A Generative Network for Parameterized Fluid Simulations, was published in 2019 in the journal Computer Graphics Forum. The work also included Professor Markus Gross and then ETH doctoral student Byungsoo Kim as co-authors.
With the Frontiers of Science Awards, the International Congress for Basic Science (ICBS) honours top research, with an emphasis on achievements from the past ten years which are both excellent and of outstanding scholarly value. For the 2024 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research were chosen in 42 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer and information sciences) represented at the ICBS. The awardees will be presented the prize at an official ceremony on 14 July 2024.
More about Barbara Solenthaler
Barbara Solenthaler is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. She heads research on simulation and animation within the Computer Graphics Laboratory, which is part of the Institute for Visual Computing. From 2019 to 2022 she was also affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, where she held a Hans Fischer Fellowship awarded by Siemens AG. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Zurich. Her current research focuses on 3D modeling and simulation, aiming to bridge the intersecting domains of Computer Graphics and Medicine. The primary objective is to develop algorithms and methods that integrate leading-edge digital human technologies predominantly utilized in entertainment with medical domain expertise, and to introduce digital humans into clinical applications. She is deeply committed to translating scientific advances to the benefit of society. She serves on various technical program and organization committees of major graphics conferences (e.g., SIGGRAPH and EG IPC, MIG 2023 and SCA 2016 conference co-chair, SCA 2022 awards co-chair), was appointed as an Associate Editor of Computer Graphics Forum from 2019-2022, and is a co-founder of Apagom AG that provides a real-time fluid engine using machine learning.