Jiří Kosinka

Associate (Adjunct) Professor; group leader

• Room number: 490 (Bernoulliborg, building 5161)
• Phone numbers

• E-mail: j.kosinka (at) rug.nl
• Visiting and postal address

Research

• Geometric Modelling
• Computer Aided (Geometric) Design
• Computer Graphics
• Image Processing

Publications

• Full list
• Google Scholar
• Pure
• ORCID

Teaching

• Computer Graphics (2015/16 to 2024/25); Coordinator and lecturer
• Advanced Computer Graphics (2015/16 to 2024/25); Coordinator and lecturer
• Research Skills in Computing Science (2019/20 to 2024/25); (Second) lecturer, now also coordinator
• Vector Graphics (2020 to 2025, Honours College Tutorial); Lecturer/tutor
• Imperative Programming (2017/18 and 2018/19, CS+AI); Coordinator of TAs
• Introduction to Computing Science (2015/16 to 2018/19); Tutor

Student Projects

• Selected topics for student projects (BSc/MSc/Internships) I would be interested in supervising can be found here. Contact me if you are interested or if you have your own project ideas. You can have a look at student projects I have already co/supervised (not always fully up to date).

Journal Editor

• Editor/Member of the editorial board of Computer-Aided Design (Elsevier)
• Associate Editor/Member of the editorial board of Graphical Models (Elsevier)
• Guest editor of two special issues of Computer Aided Geometric Design (Elsevier)

Conference Organisation

• Co-organiser of the 4th International Conference on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology (DGMM 2025) in Groningen, the Netherlands, 3-6 November 2025.
• Co-organiser of the first interdisciplinary Workshop & Hackathon on Computer Vision Technologies for the Built Environment; Groningen, 7-8 Novemeber 2024; see this flyer.
• Conference Co-Chair of 2023 SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design, part of the Geometry Summit 2023.
• Program Co-Chair of AniNex 2022 and 2023: The 4th/5th workshop on Next Generation Computer Animation Techniques, collocated with CASA 2022/2023.
• Program Co-Chair of the 2021 SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design; held jointly with SPM 2021.
• Program Co-Chair of Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) 2019; part of the International Geometry Summit 2019.
• Poster Co-Chair at Eurographics 2018.
• Member of the Local Organizing Committee, Fast Forward and Website Chair of EuroVis 2016.
• IPC (International Programme Committee) member of the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2017-2025.
• IPC member of Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2023, 2024.
• IPC member of Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) 2012, 2014-2018, 2020-2025.
• IPC member of the Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2018-2025.
• IPC member of Pacific Graphics 2018, 2020-2023.
• IPC member of the Eurographics Workshop 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR) 2018, 2019, 2021-2024.
• IPC member of the Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM) 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025.
• IPC member of the International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2024.

Career History

• Since 05/2021: Leader of the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics research group
• Since 04/2021: Associate Professor, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• 09/2015 - 03/2021: Assistant Professor, (Johann) Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• 09/2014 - 08/2015: Senior Research Associate, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK & EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Fellow, Partner Company: International TechneGroup, Ltd. (formerly TranscenData), Swavesey, Cambridge, UK
• 09/2010 - 08/2014: Research Associate, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
• 10/2007 - 12/2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, Norway
• 07/2006 - 06/2007: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Applied Geometry, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Education

• 06/2006 PhD, 05/2002 MSc from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic