Presenter

Johannes Hanika received his PhD in media informatics from Ulm University in 2011. After that he worked as a researcher for Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand. There he was co-architect of Manuka, Weta Digital’s physically-based spectral renderer. Since 2013 he is located in Germany and works as a post-doctoral fellow at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with emphasis on light transport simulation, continuing research for Weta Digital part-time. In 2009, Johannes founded the darktable open source project, a workflow tool for raw photography. Johannes has a movie credit for Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.