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Education

since 2022, PhD Student in Computer Science, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
M.S. in Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, graduated 2021
B.S. in Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, graduated 2018

Work experience

Summer 2026: Visiting Research Scholar
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Working on reconstructing material interfaces in 3-dimensional multi-material flows.
Summer 2025: Visiting Research Scholar
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Working on reconstructing material interfaces in 3-dimensional multi-material flows.
Winter 2024: Visiting Research Scholar
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Working on reconstructing material interfaces in multi-material flows.
Summer 2023: Visiting Research Scholar
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Working on scaling analyses for distributed computational topology and investigating different merge tree algorithms.
Jul 2018 - Jan 2024: Founder and Managing Partner
- Delta IT-Systeme
- Co-Founder of “Delta IT-Systeme”: Development of interdisciplinary hard- and softwaresystems (“Smart Systems”) for third parties, and development of the biking incentive platform Bewelo, responsible for web-based development, and project management
since Nov 2018: Research Assistant for Scientific Visualization
- Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Winter 2020/2019/2018: Teaching Assistant for Project Management
- Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Summer 2017: Teaching Assistant for Communication Systems
- Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Skills

Basics: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, OpenGL, React Native, Java
Deeper Understanding: C++, Docker, LATEX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Paraview, Python

Publications

Scalable Computation of Topological Abstractions for Scalar Data

Will, Michael and Lukasczyk, Jonas and Tierny, Julien and Gyulassy, Attila and Weber, Gunther and Carr, Hamish and Garth, Christoph, "Scalable Computation of Topological Abstractions for Scalar Data." Wiley CGF, 2026.

A Framework for Robust 2D Interface Reconstruction from Higher-Order Moments

Will, Michael and Garth, Christoph and Bochev, Pavel and Ridzal, Denis and Bujack, Roxana, "A Framework for Robust 2D Interface Reconstruction from Higher-Order Moments." SIAM IMR26.

Distributed Path Compression for Piecewise Linear Morse-Smale Segmentations and Connected Components

Will, Michael and Lukasczyk, Jonas and Tierny, Julien and Garth, Christoph, "Distributed Path Compression for Piecewise Linear Morse-Smale Segmentations and Connected Components." LDAV, 2024.

TTK is Getting MPI-Ready

Le Guillou, Eve and Will, Michael and Guillou, Pierre and Lukasczyk, Jonas and Fortin, Pierre and Garth, Christoph and Tierny, Julien, "TTK is Getting MPI-Ready." IEEE TVCG, 2024.

ExTreeM: Scalable Augmented Merge Tree Computation via Extremum Graphs

Lukasczyk, Jonas and Will, Michael and Wetzels, Florian and Weber, Gunther and Garth, Christoph, "ExTreeM: Scalable Augmented Merge Tree Computation via Extremum Graphs." IEEE TVCG, 2023.

Developing and Evaluating In Situ Visualization Algorithms using Containers

Will, Michael and Wofford, Quincy and Patchett, John and Rogers, David and Lukasczyk, Jonas and Garth, Christoph, "Developing and Evaluating In Situ Visualization Algorithms using Containers." ISAV21.