I received my Diploma degree with distinction in 1999 at the University of Karlsruhe/Germany. I did my PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm/Sweden supervised by Stefan Carlsson and Jan-Olof Eklundh. My thesis was nominated for the Best Nordic Thesis Award 2003-2004, as one out of two candidates form Sweden. From 2003-04, I was PostDoc at Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC), and since 2004 I have been permanent researcher at MSRC. My research interests are in the field of “(Markov) Random Field Models for Computer Vision”, “Discrete Optimization”, and “Vision for Graphics” (in particular interactive segmentation and matting). I have published more than 20 high impact papers (at least 10 citations) at international conferences and journals, and I co-authored a paper which won the best paper honourable mention award at CVPR ’05. I serve on the program committee of major conferences (e.g. SIGGRAPH, ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, NIPS), and have been area chair for BMVC ‘08, and ‘09. I have organized some workshops (“Interactive computer vision” at ICCV ’07, “Color and Reflectance” at ICCV ’09), and supervises several PhD students.

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