Dr. Stefan Rilling is a computer scientist working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS) in Sankt Augustin, Germany. He studied computer graphics at the University of Koblenz-Landau, where he worked as a Research Associate in the Computer Graphics Group (2007 - 2011). In 2013 he obtained the PhD degree focusing on "Dynamic object behavior in the context of training simulations in the digital factory". Since 2011, he is a Research Associate in the IAIS of the Fraunhofer Institute, handling key roles across series or research projects.

He is currently working as researcher and coordinator of the H2020 funded project ATLAS and as researcher and project manager in several national and international research projects related to the fields of sensor-systems, data analysis and visualization. He was involved as researcher and project manager of the ERA-NET ICT-AGRI funded project S3-CAV, as work package leader in the H2020 funded project PROTON, as researcher in the in the EU FP7 funded project CIPRNet, and as researcher in the research project SeisViz3D funded by German Government Department for Environment, and as technical manager in the industrial consortium VRGeo.