Nadia Magnenat Thalmann | |
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| Awards | 2013 CGI Achievement Award 2012 Humboldt Research Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | Switzerland Singapore |
Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann is currently Professor and Director of the Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also the Founder and Director of the MIRALab, an interdisciplinary lab in Human Computer Animation, University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal The Visual Computer (Springer-Verlag) . Her research area is the modelling of Virtual Humans and Social Robots including mixed realities. All over her career, she has received many artistic and scientific Awards, among them the 2012 Humboldt Research Award, and two Doctor honoris Causa (from University of Hanover in Germany and from the University of Ottawa in Canada).