Dr. Ivo Ihrke is head of the research group "Generalized Image Acquisition and Analysis" within the Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" at Saarland University.

Prior to joining Saarland University he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. He holds a MS degree in Scientific Computing from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden (2002) and a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in computer science from Saarland University (2007).

His dissertation focused on tomographic reconstruction methods for transparent, dynamic phenomena, like fire, smoke, and fluid flows. He received the Dr. Eduard Martin Award for the best dissertation in the faculty of engineering.

His main research interest are the modeling of forward and inverse light transport processes and computational algorithms for solving these large scale problems.