Florian Willomitzer

Florian Willomitzer an Associate Professor at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences and directs the Computational 3D Imaging and Measurement (3DIM) Lab. He graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Physics with honors (‘summa cum laude’) in 2017. During his doctoral studies (PhD advisor: Prof. Gerd Häusler) Prof. Willomitzer investigated physical and information theoretical limits of optical 3D-sensing and implemented sensors that operate close to these limits. Concurrent to his Ph.D. activity, he was a freelancer in the research group’s spin-off company ‘3D Shape GmbH’ (now part of ISRA Vision) and he worked as a high school part time teacher for physics. He joined Northwestern University as Postdoc (Postdoc advisor: Prof. Oliver Cossairt) in Fall 2017, where he further shaped his current research profile. He became Research Assistant Professor in 2019 and started the 3DIM Lab at Northwestern shortly thereafter. In Fall 2022, he joined the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona as Associate Professor.

In the 3DIM Lab, Prof. Willomitzer and his team work on novel methods to image hidden objects through scattering media or around corners, unconventional methods for precise VR eye tracking, high-resolution holographic displays, and the implementation of high-precision metrology methods in low-cost mobile handheld devices. Moreover, the team develops novel time-of-flight and structured light techniques for industrial inspection and medical imaging working at depth resolutions in the 100μm-range.

Prof. Willomitzer serves/served as Chair and Host of the Optica Incubator on Imaging Through 100 Scattering Lengths, Chair and Committee Member of several Optica COSI conferences, Optics Chair of the 2022 IEEE ICCP conference, Committee member of Optica FiO, DGaO, ICMVA, and ODF conferences, and as a reviewer for the Nature portfolio (Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature LSA), Optica (formerly OSA), SPIE, IEEE, and CVPR. He is the recipient of the NSF CRII grant, winner of the Optica 20th Anniversary Challenge, OSA Senior Member, and his Ph.D. thesis was awarded with the Springer Theses Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Research.

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