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Prof. Michael Sedlmair reinforces the institute management of Fraunhofer IGD as of 1 October 2026.

 

As of 1 October 2026, Prof. Michael Sedlmair reinforces the institute management of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Together with Dr. Matthias Unbescheiden, he will be responsible for the scientific and strategic development of the institute at the Darmstadt and Rostock sites. His thematic focus lies on human-centred artificial intelligence and how visual computing technologies can support humans in complex cognitive and physical tasks. At the same time, Sedlmair takes up a professorship at Technische Universität Darmstadt and continues to head the former Chair of Graphical Interactive Systems under the name Visual Computing. The institute’s expertise ranges from optronic systems and computer vision to AI-based robotics.

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