Marcel Padilla

Dr. Marcel Padilla is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Interactive Geometry Lab within the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, supported by the Feodor-Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Previously, he completed his PhD at TU Berlin under Professors Ulrich Pinkall and Peter Schröder, focusing on solar corona modeling and geometry processing.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, TU Berlin (2023)
• MSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin (2018)
• BSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin (2016)

Research Interests: Marcel’s work spans physical simulations, geometry processing, fluid dynamics, and plasma modeling. He explores applications in computer graphics, such as modeling solar corona dynamics and vortex filament behavior. His methods often leverage discrete exterior calculus and variational principles to achieve computational efficiency and accuracy.

Key Contributions: Recent work includes Exact 3D Green’s Function Integrations on Triangles (2025), Going with the Flow (2024), and Filament Based Plasma (2022). These studies address challenges in fluid-structure interaction, plasma visualization, and efficient numerical integration.

Awards:

• Feodor-Lynen Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

Teaching & Outreach: Marcel has taught courses on Discrete Differential Geometry at ETH Zürich and Geometry Processing at TU Berlin. He also develops practical resources for Houdini programming and scientific presentation design.

Labs & Collaborations: His research is supported by institutions like the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR 109 and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. He actively contributes to open-source projects, including implementations of his publications on GitHub.