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Martin Schrader BackgroundStudying physics at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg in Germany starting in 1987 I received my Masters/Diploma with a thesis on the design and fabrication of computer generated holographical structures in 1993. Working on "smart pixels" (opto-electronic components with integrated laser and detector) as visiting scientist at the University of Princeton/NJ during 1993/94 I continued my optics track. As visiting scientist at the Universities of Oxford and Turku I did most of my experimental work for my PhD thesis on high-resolution laser scanning microscopy which I completed again at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg in 1997. For another two years I continued working on high-resolution microscopy at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen/Germany before moving to Tampere to start working at Nokia Research Center in 1999. From 1999 to 2006 I have been working on Optics, Display and Camera Technology, first as a senior research engineer, later as principal scientist and then as a team leader of the Camera & Display Technology group. Present Work and InterestsCurrently I am leading a research team that, as part of the Nokia Research Center Tampere, investigates user perception and technologies relevant for creating communication and content consumption solutions that in quality and intensity of the experience reach or even surpass the level of direct human-to-human communication and other real life experiences. In other words, the future telecommunication solutions that our "Immersive Communication Team" envisions are expected to provide a feeling of real presence that is virtually identical with a direct face-to-face communication. The transformation of current telecommunication towards such a fully engaging new form of communication is happening through advances in audio-visual technologies as moving from 2D to 3D representation, but also through completely new ways of communication as social networks, virtual and mixed-reality environments and a multitude of means to get real-time information about location, activities, mood and intention of the people that are relevant to me. My present work includes thus the studies of different communication technologies and research on the way we experience communication. |