Alexander Schiftner

Research Assistant

Alexander Schiftner
Geometric Modeling and Industrial Geometry
Vienna University of Technology
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/104
1040 Wien, Austria

Phone:	+43 1 58801 11315
Fax:	+43 1 58801 11399
Email:	aschiftner at geometrie dot tuwien dot ac dot at

Customer- and Technical Support, Austrosoft Weiss Datenverarbeitung GmbH, 03/1999 - 06/2007
Summer Student, Calibration of Electronic Distance Meters for installation of LHC, CERN, 07/2006 - 08/2006
Research Assistant, Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien, 07/2007 -
Secondment at RFR within research project ARC - Architectural Freeform Structures from Single Curved Panels, 04/2009 - 11/2009
Secondment at Evolute within research project ARC - Architectural Freeform Structures from Single Curved Panels, 10/2010 - 09/2011

	Case Studies in Cost-Optimized Paneling of Architectural Freeform Surfaces M. Eigensatz, M. Deuss, A. Schiftner, M. Kilian, N. Mitra, H. Pottmann, M. Pauly Proc. Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010
	Tiling Freeform Shapes With Straight Panels: Algorithmic Methods J. Wallner, A. Schiftner, M. Kilian, S. Floery, M. Hoebinger, B. Deng, Q. Huang, H. Pottmann Proc. Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010
	Statics-Sensitive Layout of Planar Quadrilateral Meshes A. Schiftner, J. Balzer Proc. Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010
	Designing Quad-dominant Meshes with Planar Faces M. Zadravec, A. Schiftner, J. Wallner Computer Graphics Forum 29/5 (2010), 1671-1679, Proc. Symp. Geometry Processing
	Paneling Architectural Freeform Surfaces M. Eigensatz, M. Kilian, A. Schiftner, N. Mitra, H. Pottmann, M. Pauly ACM Trans. Graphics, 29/3, Proc. SIGGRAPH (2010).
	Geodesic Patterns H. Pottmann, Q. Huang, B. Deng, A. Schiftner, M. Kilian, L. Guibas, J. Wallner ACM Trans. Graphics, 29/3, Proc. SIGGRAPH (2010).
	Packing Circles and Spheres on Surfaces A. Schiftner, M. Höbinger, J. Wallner, H. Pottmann ACM Trans. Graphics, 28/5, Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia (2009).
	Geometry of Architectural Freeform Structures H. Pottmann, A. Schiftner, and J. Wallner Int. Math. Nachr., Nr. 209/2008
	Freeform Surfaces from Single Curved Panels H. Pottmann, A. Schiftner, P. Bo, H. Schmiedhofer, W. Wang, N. Baldassini, and J. Wallner ACM Trans. Graphics, 27/3, Proc. SIGGRAPH (2008)

2010-09-20 Statics-Sensitive Layout of Planar Quadrilateral Meshes	Advances in Architectural Geometry September 17-20 2010 Vienna, Austria	funded by research projects MLFS - Computing Multilayer Freeform Surfaces and ARC - Architectural Freeform Structures from Single Curved Panels
2010-07-06 Designing Quad-dominant Meshes with Planar Faces	Symposium on Geometry Processing 2010 July 5-7 2010 Lyon, France	funded by research projects MLFS - Computing Multilayer Freeform Surfaces and ARC - Architectural Freeform Structures from Single Curved Panels
2009-12-18 Packing Circles and Spheres on Surfaces	SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 December 16-19 2009 Yokohama, Japan	funded by research project MLFS - Computing Multilayer Freeform Surfaces
2009-10-05 Problems in Architectural Geometry	2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling October 5-8, 2009 San Francisco, California	funded by research project ARC - Architectural Freeform Structures from Single Curved Panels
2008-08-14 Freeform Surfaces from Single Curved Panels	SIGGRAPH 2008 August 11-15 2008 Los Angeles, California	funded by research project MLFS - Computing Multilayer Freeform Surfaces

Alexander Schiftner: Planar quad meshes from relative principal curvature lines. Master Thesis, TU Wien, 2007

TU Wien, winter term 2006: Partielle Differentialgleichungen (Übungen)