Jernej Barbič as one of the world’s 35 most outstanding innovators under age 35
Jernej Barbič held lectures at IMB program for 2 years and he will return next study year 2015/2016.
In 2011, the respected American scientific magazine MIT Technology Review listed Jernej Barbič as one of the world’s 35 most outstanding innovators under 35, one of the others being Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
In the same year, this 3D animation specialist received a half-million dollar grant from the American National Science Foundation for promising young researchers. So what has 38-year-old Jernej Barbič, who comes from a village near Most na Soči in Slovenia, done to acquire all this attention? First a student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Ljubljana, then a doctoral student at the Carnegie Mellon University and a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jernej Barbič has made a breakthrough in 3D-animation.
His method has been used in many well-known films. It has been used by Disney and Pixar, and Berbič himself has been involved in the making of one part of the Hobbit trilogy. What do fantasy characters from the Hobbit film trilogy, mathematical tree models and aircraft engines have in common? Jernej Barbič has joined these fields in computer graphics, and his achievements have won over several large animation studios (including Pixar and Disney) which now use his inventions.
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