Thomas Ertl received a masters degree in computer science from the
University of Colorado at Boulder and a PhD in theoretical
astrophysics from the University of Tuebingen. Currently, Dr. Ertl is
a full professor of computer science at the University of Stuttgart,
Germany and the head of the Visualization and Interactive Systems
Institute (VIS)and the Visualization Research Center of the University
of Stuttgart (VISUS).  His research interests include visualization,
computer graphics and human computer interaction in general with a
focus on volume rendering, flow visualization, multiresolution
analysis, and parallel and hardware accelerated graphics for large
datasets.  Dr. Ertl is coauthor of more than 300 scientific
publications and he served on several program and paper committees as
well as a reviewer for numerous conferences and journals in the field.