Short Biography
Gunther Weber comes to Berkeley Lab from UC Davis, where he was an assistant
project scientist at the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization. At
IDAV, Gunther's research focused around visualization and computer graphics.
Gunther worked on visualization of three-dimensional gene expression data (with
researchers in the Lab's Genomics and Life Sciences divisions), topology-based
exploration of scalar data, and visualization of brain imaging data and
experimental earthquake data. Gunther has worked at NERSC before, as a student
employee and then a guest student assistant in NERSC's Visualization Group
between 2000 and 2003. He has also been a guest in the Lab's Life Sciences
Division since 2003. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees
in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. His
research interests include scientific visualization, computer graphics, data
analysis, bioinformatics, topological data analysis methods, hierarchical data
representation methods, gene expression data analysis, and visualization and
image synthesis.
