Jan Halatsch
Institution: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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Jan Halatsch received a Dipl. Ing. degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he participated in a postgraduate master program in Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz (Germany). From 2006 to 2008 Jan held a position as a research scientist for the ETH Value Lab project and as a teaching assistant for several elective courses and theses at the Chair for Information Architecture. Jan was a team member of the software company Procedural (now ESRI) during the first phase of this start-up company. At Procedural Jan was actively involved to position the modeling software CityEngine as an important tool for city modeling, urban planning and design. Since 2008 Jan’s research focus is on sustainable urban planning and efficient geometric modeling, simulation and visualization techniques (CTI project – interactive city planning tool). In 2009 he became a lecturer for a regular advanced master course on new methods in urban simulation and modeling. His current PhD research focusses on the development of an procedural multi-scale urban climate model for the interactive prediction of urban heat islands within the planning process. Jan is actively involved in scientific activities such as the Climate-KIC, the organization of conferences, editor or being a delegate of the non-professorial staff at the department of architecture (D-ARCH). During Professor Schmitt’s stay at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore Jan became also the financial deputy of the Chair for Information Architecture. |
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Antje Kunze
Institution: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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Antje Kunze studied architecture and graduated with a diploma degree from the Technical University of Dresden. After completing her degree she worked as a journalist for the digital content creation magazine Digital Production. From 2004 to 2006 she participated in the postgraduate master program in Computer and Information Science at the University of Constance. Since 2006 Antje is a research scientist and teaching assistant at the Chair for Information Architecture. She started her PhD studies in 2008 at ETH Zurich with the focus on the definition and development of an interactive decision support tool, to aid in the strategic planning of sustainable future cities. Antje was involved in the organizing committee of the 28th eCAADe Conference ‘Future Cities’ 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland. Her main interests in research concentrate on decision-making processes, stakeholder participation, visualization, collaborative environments, geometric urban modeling, urban simulation and sustainable urban planning. |
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