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I am a PhD student in the Games and Virtual Worlds group at Utrecht University. My research area is crowd simulation and I work in the Metaverse project.

My interests include computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, display and projection technology, high dynamic range imaging and game technology.

I recently graduated with a MSc in media systems from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. I did the actual thesis project at the Delft University of Technology Computer Graphics Group on procedural modelling of cities.

While in Weimar, I developed a 3D VR game for mentally handicapped children as a research project, worked on a high dynamic range projector, and was a student teaching assistant at the augmented reality chair in the fields of computer vision and information displays from 2005 to 2008.

I spent 2 years at the Fraunhofer IMK department of virtual environments near Bonn, developing a virtual physics teacher with emotional reactions to the students and teching methods that adapt to the student's abilities. I also spent some months in Miami at the Fraunhofer IBMT-FTeCH doing computer vision algorithms.

In 2004 I received a graduate degree (Dipl.-Inform.(FH)) in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, where I specialized in autonomous robots and chipcard encryption.

News

05. - 09. April 2009: Metaverse workshop on Tenerife.

1. April 2009: Started as PhD student in the Games and Virtual Worlds group at Utrecht University. The topic is crowd simulation and my supervisor is Mark Overmars.

29. March - 03. April 2009: Will be at Eurographics in Munich.

25. March 2009: Graduated with a Master of Science degree in media systems from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. You can download my thesis on "procedural city layout generation based on urban land use models" and a paper on the same topic under publications.

15. February 2009: I will be a student volunteer Team Leader again this summer at Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans.

19. January 2009: Short Paper accepted at Eurographics 2009 in Munich, Germany. (S. Groenewegen, R.M. Smelik, K. J. de Kraker, R. Bidarra: "Procedural City Layout Generation Based on Urban Land Use Models"), see publications.

1. October 2008: New paper published in "Computers & Graphics" Journal (S. Groenewegen, S. Heinz, A. Huckauf, B. Fröhlich: "Virtual world interfaces for special needs education based on props on a board", see publications).

15. April 2008: Team Leader for the student volunteers at Siggraph 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

1. April 2008: Moved to Den Haag to work on a project at the TU Delft Computer Graphics Group and TNO.

2. June 2007: Paper accepted at Eurographics 2007 in Prague, CZ. (S. Groenewegen, S. Heinz, A. Huckauf, B. Fröhlich: "ProbonoWorld: Educating the Mentally Handicapped in a Virtual Environment using Props on a Board"), see publications.

1. May 2007: Accepted as Student Volunteer at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego, California.

11. April 2007: Accepted as Student Volunteer at Eurographics 2007 in Prague, CZ.

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