Georg Sperl

Georg Sperl is a research scientist at CLO Virtual Fashion. He holds a PhD in physics-based simulation from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), where he was supervised by Chris Wojtan. His research focuses on physics-based animation of natural phenomena like cloth, yarns, granular media, and fluids, emphasizing multi-scale simulation techniques.

Education: BSc and MSc in Visual Computing from the Technical University of Vienna, followed by a PhD at IST Austria. His work bridges computational mechanics and visual detail through methods like numerical homogenization.

Notable achievements include the SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) and the Eurographics PhD Award. His research has advanced yarn-level cloth simulation, thin-shell mechanics, and inverse modeling of fabric properties. Prior to his current role, he contributed to projects like iCaRL in computer vision.