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David Günther

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 4: Computer Graphics
Campus E1 4, Room 213
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

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Phone: +49 681 9325 4013
Fax: +49 681 9325 499

Research Interests

Algebraic Topology
Discrete Morse Theory
Topological Data Analysis
Feature Extraction
Finite Element Method
Mathematical Programming

Publications (Google Scholar)

	David Günther, Jan Reininghaus, Hubert Wagner, Ingrid Hotz: Efficient Computation of 3D Morse-Smale Complexes and Persistent Homology using Discrete Morse Theory (to appear in) The Visual Computer, 2012 The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com (DOI: 10.1007/s00371-012-0726-8) (PDF)
	Carsten Carstensen, David Günther, Hella Rabus: Mixed Finite Element Method for a Degenerate Convex Variational Problem from Topology Optimisation SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2012 (PDF) (Bibtex)
	Alexander Rigort, David Günther, Reiner Hegerl, Daniel Baum, Britta Weber, Steffen Prohaska, Ohad Medalia, Wolfgang Baumeister, Hans-Christian Hege: Automated segmentation of electron tomograms for a quantitative description of actin filaments networks Ueli Aebi Festschrift, Journal of Structural Biology, 2012 doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.08.012 (Bibtex) (Video 1) (Video 2) (Software)
	Jan Reininghaus, Natallia Kotava, David Günther, Hans Hagen, Ingrid Hotz: A Scale Space Based Persistence Measure for Critical Points in 2D Scalar Fields IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2011 (PDF) (Bibtex) (Slides)
	David Günther, Jan Reininghaus, Hubert Wagner, Ingrid Hotz: Memory Efficient Computation of Persistent Homology for 3D Image Data using Discrete Morse Theory IEEE Sibgrapi 2011 - Technical Papers, 28. - 31. August 2011, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil (PDF) (Bibtex) (Slides) (Pic 1) (Pic 2)
	David Günther, Jan Reininghaus, Steffen Prohaska, Tino Weinkauf, Hans-Christian Hege: Efficient Computation of a Hierarchy of Discrete 3D Gradient Vector Fields Proceedings TopoInVis, 4. - 6. April 2011, Zürich, Switzerland (PDF) (Bibtex) (Slides)
	Jan Reininghaus, David Günther, Ingrid Hotz, Steffen Prohaska, Hans-Christian Hege: TADD: A Computational Framework for Data Analysis Using Discrete Morse Theory Mathematical Software - ICMS 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2010, 198-208 (PDF) (Bibtex) (Slides)
	Tino Weinkauf, David Günther: Separatrix Persistence: Extraction of Salient Edges on Surfaces Using Topological Methods Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP 2009), 2009, 28, 1519-1528, 5 (PDF) (Bibtex) (Slides) (Video 1) (Video 2) (Video 3)
	Vincent J. Dercksen, Britta Weber, David Günther, Marcel Oberländer, Steffen Prohaska, Hans-Christian Hege: Automatic alignment of stacks of filament data IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2009, 971-974 (PDF) (Bibtex)
	Carsten Carstensen, David Günther, Jan Reininghaus, Jan Thiele: The Arnold-Winther mixed FEM in linear elasticity. Part I: Implementation and numerical verification Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2008, 197, 33-40, 3014-3023 (PDF) (Bibtex)

Posters and more

	David Günther: Visualization of a Chaperon protein Informatik Spektrum (Front Cover), vol. 35/1, 2012 (Cover) (Pic 1) (Caption)
	David Günther: Visualization of the electro static field of a benzene molecule Informatik Spektrum (Front Cover), vol. 34/4, 2011 (Cover) (Pic 1) (Pic 2) (Pic 3) (Caption)
	Britta Weber, Marit Möller, Steffen Prohaska, David Günther, Hans-Christian Hege: Fast Tracing of Microtubules in Electron Tomograms VIZBI (Poster), 2011 (PNG) (Bibtex)
	David Günther, Patrick C. McGuire, Sebastian Walter, Tino Weinkauf, Hans-Christian Hege: Extraction of Valley Networks in Mars Elevation Maps European Planetary Science Congress (Poster), 2010 (PDF) (Abstract) (Bibtex)
	David Günther: Visualization of Mars and solar system Mars, Solar System

Michael Portz:
Denoising of a 3-D Cryo-Electron-Tomogram via Non-Local-Means
Diploma thesis, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 2008, referee: Prof. Dr. J. Weickert, advisors: Dr. D. Baum, D. Günther

Software

	OpenFFW - Open Finite Element Framework Finite-Element software package in Matlab, Open Source (GPLv3), OpenFFW
	Actin Segmentation Package Tomography Toolbox in Amira, CryoEM

Recent Positions

since September 2011:
Junior Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics
May 2011-August 2011:
Junior Researcher (scholarship) at Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
January 2008-April 2011:
Junior Researcher at Zuse Institute Berlin in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
October 2007-December 2007:
Student Assistant at Zuse Institute Berlin
September 2004-September 2007:
Student Assistant at Humboldt University Berlin

Education

	September 2011 - present: Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics
	September 2001 - December 2007: Studies in Mathematics at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Title of Master's Thesis (Diplomarbeit): A mixed finite element method for a nonlinear Optimal-Design problem (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carsten Carstensen, Prof. Dr. Sören Bartels) (PDF)
	June 2000: Abitur at the Sartre Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany