Fabian Löschner

Welcome to my profile

I'm a PhD student in the Computer Animation group at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. My research interests include simulation of large deformations using (higher-order) FEM and higher-order time integration in physically-based animation. In my research I explore the behavior of non-classical material models and how to make them more approachable for application in computer graphics.
In my spare time I love traveling and taking photos or working on personal coding projects (in Rust and C++) as well as playing video games.

Publications

This is a list of the publications I worked on as first author. Check out my staff entry on our research group's website for a list of all publications I was involved in and co-authored.

• 	Curved Three-Director Cosserat Shells with Strong Coupling SCA 2024 - Project page - Paper Fabian Löschner, José Antonio Fernández-Fernández, Stefan Rhys Jeske, Jan Bender DOI: 10.1111/cgf.15183
  	Weighted Laplacian Smoothing for Surface Reconstruction of Particle-based Fluids VMV 2023 - Project page - Paper Fabian Löschner, Timna Böttcher, Stefan Rhys Jeske, Jan Bender DOI: 10.2312/vmv.20231245
  	Micropolar Elasticity in Physically-Based Animation SCA 2023 - Project page - Paper Fabian Löschner, José Antonio Fernández-Fernández, Stefan Rhys Jeske, Andreas Longva, Jan Bender DOI: 10.1145/3606922
  	Higher-Order Time Integration for Deformable Solids SCA 2020 - Project page - Paper Fabian Löschner, Andreas Longva, Stefan Rhys Jeske, Tassilo Kugelstadt, Jan Bender DOI: 10.1111/cgf.14110

Select co-authored Publications

This is a list of select publications I worked on as a coauthor. Check out my staff entry on our research group's website for a list of all publications I was involved in and co-authored.

• 	Multiphysics Simulation Methods in Computer Graphics EG 2024 - Project page - Paper Daniel Holz, Stefan Rhys Jeske, Fabian Löschner, Jan Bender, Yin Yang, Sheldon Andrews DOI: 10.1111/cgf.70082
  	Higher-Order Finite Elements for Embedded Simulation SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 - Project page - Paper Andreas Longva, Fabian Löschner, Tassilo Kugelstadt, José Antonio Fernández-Fernández, Jan Bender DOI: 10.1145/3414685.3417853

Open-source software

On GitHub, I made smaller contributions to several open source projects. As @w1th0utnam3, I'm also maintainer of the following notable project(s):

• splashsurf — a command line tool and library for surface reconstruction of SPH particle data, written in Rust. The tool also includes an implementation of my publication "Weighted Laplacian Smoothing for Surface Reconstruction of Particle-based Fluids".

In general I believe that code required to obtain central results of scientific publications should be made publicly available to improve reproducibility and to make follow-up research more accessible. At the Computer Animation group, I collaborated with my colleagues on several open-source software projects and extended them during my research. This includes:

• Stark (by José Antonio Fernández-Fernández) — a C++ and Python simulation platform for the robust simulation of rigid and deformable objects in a strongly coupled manner with an energy-based formulation using symbolic differentiation. I used and extended Stark for my publications "Curved Three-Director Cosserat Shells with Strong Coupling" and "Micropolar Elasticity in Physically-Based Animation". For my work on shells, a fork of Stark is available on GitHub, which makes the experiments from the paper reproducible.
• Fenris (by Andreas Longva) — a library for advanced finite element computations in Rust with support for higher-order elements and nonlinear material models. I used this library for my publication "Higher-Order Time Integration for Deformable Solids".

Photography

During vacations I like to travel and try to improve my photography skills. Have a look through my 500px portfolio.

Contact

If you want to contact me you can write to my university mail address: loeschner@cs.rwth-aachen.de or send me a private message at twitter.