Philipp Slusallek is Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he is leading the research area “Agents and Simulated Reality” since 2008. At Saarland University he has been a full professor for Computer Graphics since 1999.

Philipp Slusallek has done pioneering work in the areas of real-time ray tracing and lighting simulation, high-performance graphics hardware and software, massive model visualization, 3D Internet technology, distributed media applications, and novel 3D tomographic reconstructions.