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Martin Heller
Business Address
- Department of Geography, University of Zürich
(Irchel), Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich
(Switzerland)
- Phone: + 41-1-635 52 56
- Fax: +41-1-635 68 48
- E-mail: heller@geo.unizh.ch
- www.geo.unizh.ch/~heller
Personal Data
- Citizenship: American and Swiss
- Home address: Buhnstrasse 8, CH-8052 Zürich
(Switzerland)
- Home phone: +41-1-302 31 39
Education
- Language skills: German (native language), English,
French.
- University of Zürich, Switzerland,
- Ph.D. thesis topic:
- « Adaptive Triangulation Methods for Terrain
Modeling ».
- pending graduation Summer, 1999
- University of Basel, Switzerland, 1974-1981, major:
Physics, minors: Mathematics, Geology.
- Supplemental coursework in digital cartography,
computer science, geophysics and image processing at the
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich.
- MS-degree in Physics with thesis entitled: «
R-matrix Analysis of aScattering Experiment: The Alpha*
and the Neutron Scattering Length of3He ».
Professional Positions
- Trendscout, Internet Access, Zürich, 1998-1999.
Technical advisor to the board of directors.
- Senior Research Scientist, Department of Geography,
University of Zürich, 1993-1997. Research, research
supervision, teaching, consulting.
- Departmental Computer Scientist (Instituts
informatiker), Department of Geography, University of
Zürich, 1991-1993.
- Research Associate, Department of Geography,
University of Zürich, 1987-1991. Research on
adaptive triangulation methods.
- Research Associate, Department of Geography,
University of Zürich, 1985-1987. Project «
Computer-Aided Modeling and Visualization of Spatial
Structures in the Geosciences » (Swiss National
Science Foundation, Contracts 2.391-084, 2.082-0.86).
Development of a triangulation based interpolation
system.
- Visiting Senior Software Engineer and Consultant,
Environmental Systems Research Institute (Canada, USA),
1984-1985. Design and implementation of interpolation
algorithms based on Delaunay triangulations. The results
were integrated into Arc Info as the basis for the
terrain modeling package Arc TIN.
- Research Associate, Department of Geography,
University of Zürich, 1984. Work on methods for
modeling and visualization of spatial structures in the
geosciences. Design of the architecture for a
terrainmodeling system.
- Research Associate, Department of Geology, University
ofBasel, 1982-1984. Work on computer-assisted geological
modeling methods to support the federal project group for
geothermal energy of the City of Basel.
- Consulting to the Institute of Hydrogeology in
Neuchatel (graphical representation of finite element
ground water models).
- Senior Software Engineer, CAD-Systems Co.,
Basel1982-1984. Algorithm design. Creation of the
visualization sub-system for a commercial computer-aided
design software.
- Senior Software Engineer and Researcher, Scientific
Computing Research group at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Co.
1981. Design of an imagery system for molecular modeling.
Research on audiovisual presentation techniques and
proximity analysis for multidimensional statistical
data.
- Research Assistant, in the particle-physics group of
the Physics Department of the University of Basel,
1979-1980. Analysis of a 64MeV scattering experiment at
the SIN injector cyclotron using real-time graphics to
find solutions of a very complexsystem of equations
(R-Matrix representation).
Courses of Instruction
- Object-Oriented Methods for Spatial Problems
(Department of Geography, University of Zürich,
1993-97).
- Special Topics in Geo informatics (Department of
Geography, University ofZürich, 1993-97).
- Geographical Information Systems III: Architecture,
Structures and Algorithms (Department of Geography,
University of Zürich, 1989-1992).
- Computer Graphics Software Packages - design and
applications (Departmentof Geography, University of
Zürich, 1989-1991).
- Mediator/Instructor at the Summer-School «
Computer and Arts » in Lugano (1989-1991).
- Initiator of the Apple Developer University -
Switzerland, courses for professional Apple developers.
Instructor for the courses: «Macintosh Programming
Fundamentals », « MacintoshProgrammer's
Workshop », « Introduction to Object
Programming with Object Pascal andC++» and «
Object Programming with MacApp » (1987-1991).
Consulting Activities
- Consultant to the Swiss Senate and Congress Committe
concerning thereform of Swiss surveying practices towards
digital methods (1990-1991).
- Consultant to the Surveying Department of the City of
Zürich (1989-1991). Evaluation of GIS/LIS
systems.
Extracurricular Activities
- Designer of TOPOROBOT, a system for modeling and
visualization of caves (1972-present). The resulting
Macintosh based software package, as well as its
associated survey approach is used by many speleologists
worldwide and is considered the most advanced in the
field.
- Initiator and Principal Designer of the Macintosh
Bulletin Board at the Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH), 1985-1991.
- Initiator, founding member and first president of the
Macintosh Users Switzerland (1986).
Awards
- First Price (Diapos d' Or) for the slide show «
Caving » at the International Competition for
Audiovisual Presentations in Arles (France), 1981.
- First and Second price at the International Computer
Graphics Competitionat the Hannover fair in Germany,
April, 1984
- Grand Prix du Public, 12e Congrès
International de Spéléologie, La Chaux de
Fonds, August, 1997
Exhibits
- Computer graphics images created originally for
scientific purposes wereexhibited at SIGGraph art shows
(1985, 1986). Images: «Eternal braid » and
« Big Blue » were chosen for the «
SIGGRAPH Traveling Exhibition of Computer Art » and
were shown in various museums in the USA and Japan
(1987).
- SIGGRAPH Art Show at ART EXPO NewYork (April,
1985).
- ADP Traveling Computer Art Show (April-June
1985).
- Art shows in Zürich (January, 1985),
Spreitenbach (May, 1985), New York (July-August
1985).
Scientific Committees
- Scientific Commission of the Swiss Speleological
Society
- Speleological Commission of the Swiss Academy for
Natural Sciences (Académie Suisse des Sciences
Naturelles).
Research Interests
- Geographical Information Systems, modeling and
visualization in the geosciences, algorithm design,
computational geometry, computer graphics, interpolation,
triangulation methods, object programming, adaptive
systems, computer assisted generalisation, user interface
design.
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