Big Data Visual Analytics

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Michael Krone

Junior professor for Big Data Visual Analytics in Life Sciences

As of 01.10.2024, I am a professor for Virtual and Augmented Reality Engineering at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HFT Stuttgart).

https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/p/michael-krone

Office
Sand 14
72076 Tübingen
Room C321
 +49 7071 29-70456
michael.kronespam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
http://va.cs.uni-tuebingen.de

Office Hours
by arrangement

Profil on Google Scholar
Profil on ResearchGate
ORDiC: 0000-0002-1445-7568

 

Research

Research Areas

  • Scientific Visualization for
    • Molecular Structures / Structural Biology
    • Material Sciences
    • Biomedical data
  • Information Visualization & Visual Analytics
    • Interaktive visual analysis of big data
    • Immersive Analytics
    • Applied Machine Learning
  • Computer Graphics
    • Rendering & Lighting
  • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Multimodal interaction
    • AR/VR, mobile devices
  • Parallelization & GPGPU
    • CUDA

Research Projects

See projects webseite.

 

04/2024-10/2024
Substitute Professor for Media Informatics (W3)

at the University of Tübingen

09/2022-06/2023
Visiting Assistant Professor

at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU)

Since 2018
Junior Professor for Big Data Visual Analytics

at the University of Tübingen
(until 2022: endowed junior professorship by Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung)

SoSe 2016 & 2017
Visiting Lecturer

at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich

2016-2018
PostDoc

at the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart (VISUS)

2015
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.)

Ph.D. defense in Computer Science (summa cum laude), Main examiner: Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl (University of Stuttgart), second examiner: Prof. Amitabh Varshney, Ph.D. (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

2011
Research stay

at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group)

2009-2015
Scientific assistant and doctoral candidate

supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl at the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart (VISUS)

2002-2008
Study of Computer Science

at the University of Stuttgart
Secondary subject: Technical Biology

1983
born in Stuttgart

Publications

2021 – 2025

2024
  • N. Brich, T. Harbig, M. Witte Paz, K. Nieselt, and M. Krone, “ProtEGOnist: Visual Analysis of Interactions in Small World Networks Using Ego-graphs,” Comput. Graph. Forum, 2024 (to appear, accepted at EuroVis 2024).
  • M. Schäfer, N. Brich, J. Byska, S. M. Marques, D. Bednar, P. Thiel, B. Kozlikova, and M. Krone, “InVADo: Interactive Visual Analysis of Molecular Docking Data,” IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graphics, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1984–1997, 2024.
  • S. Castelo, J. Rulff, E. McGowan, B. Steers, G. Wu, S. Chen, I. Roman, R. Lopez, E. Brewer, C. Zhao, J. Qian, K. Cho, H. He, Q. Sun, H. T. Vo, J. P. Bello, M. Krone, C. Silva, “ARGUS: Visualization of AI-assisted Task Guidance in AR,” IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1313–1323, 2024 (IEEE VIS 2023 Honorable Mention).
  • S. P. Feyer, B. Pinaud, S. Kobourov, N. Brich, M. Krone, A. Kerren, M. Behrisch, F. Schreiber, and K. Klein, “2D, 2.5D, or 3D? An Exploratory Study on Multilayer Network Visualisations in Virtual Reality,” IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 469–479, 2024.
  • A. Sterzik, N. Lichtenberg, J. Wilms, M. Krone, D. Cunningham, and K. Lawonn, “Perception of Line Attributes for Visualization,” IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1041–1051, 2024.
2023
  • M. Lang, C. Strobel, F. Weckesser, D. Langlois, E. Kasneci, Barbora Kozlikova, and M. Krone, “A multimodal smartwatch-based interaction concept for immersive environments,” Computers & Graphics, vol. 117, pp. 85–95, 2023.
  • L. Joos, K. Klein, M. T. Fischer, F. L. Dennig, D. Keim, M. Krone, “Exploring Trajectory Data in Augmented Reality: A Comparative Study of Interaction Modalities,” in IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pp. 790–799, 2023.
  • N. Brich, N. Schacherer, M. Hoene, C. Weigert, R. Lehmann, M. Krone, “visMOP – A Visual Analytics Approach for Multi-omics Pathways,” Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 259–270, 2023.
  • A. Sterzik, N. Lichtenberg, M. Krone, D. Baum, D.W. Cunningham, K. Lawonn, “Enhancing Molecular Visualization: Perceptual Evaluation of Line Variables with Application to Uncertainty Visualization,” Computers & Graphics, vol. 114, pp. 401–413, 2023.
  • D. Kuťák, P.-P. Vázquez, T. Isenberg, M. Krone, M. Baaden, J. Byška, B. Kozlíková, and H. Miao, “State of the Art of Molecular Visualization in Immersive Virtual Environments,” Computert Graphics Forum, vol. 42, no. 6, 2023.
  • T. A. Harbig, J. Fratte, M. Krone, K. Nieselt, “OmicsTIDE: interactive exploration of trends in multi-omics data,” Bioinformatics Advances, vol. 3, no. 1, p. vbac093, 2023.
2022
  • C. Holzapfel, M. Hoene, X. Zhao, C. Hu, C. Weigert, A. Niess, G. Xu, R. Lehmann, A. Dräger, M. Krone, "FluxomicsExplorer: Differential visual analysis of Flux Sampling based on Metabolomics," Computers & Graphics, vol. 108, pp. 11–21, 2022. Demo
  • A. Sterzik, N. Lichtenberg, M. Krone, D. Cunningham, K. Lawonn, “Perceptual Evaluation of Common Line Variables for Displaying Uncertainty on Molecular Surfaces,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2022.
  • J. Hombeck, M. Meuschke, S. Lieb, N. Lichtenberg, R. Datta, M. Krone, C. Hansen, B. Preim, K. Lawonn, “Distance Visualizations for Vascular Structures in Desktop and VR: Overview and Implementation,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2022.
  • J. Scheer, A. Volkert, N. Brich, L. Weinert, N. Santhanam, M. Krone, T. Ganslandt, M. Boeker, T. Nagel, “Visualization Techniques of Time-Oriented Data for the Comparison of Single Patients With Multiple Patients or Cohorts: Scoping Review,” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(9):e38041, 2022. Website
  • N. Brich, C. Schulz, J. Peter, W. Klingert, M. Schenk, D. Weiskopf, and M. Krone, “Visual Analytics of Multivariate Intensive Care Time Series Data,” Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 41, no. 6., 2022.
2021
  • K. Schatz, J. J. Franco-Moreno, M. Schäfer, A. S. Rose, V. Ferrario, J. Pleiss, P.-P. Vázquez, T. Ertl, and M. Krone, “Visual Analysis of Large-Scale Protein-Ligand Interaction Data,” Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 40, no. 6, 2021.
  • K. Schatz, F. Frieß, M. Schäfer, P. C. F. Buchholz, J. Pleiss, T. Ertl, and M. Krone, “Analyzing the similarity of protein domains by clustering Molecular Surface Maps,” Computers & Graphics, vol. 99, pp. 114–127, 2021.
  • P. Hermosilla, M. Schäfer, M. Lang, G. Fackelmann, P. Vázquez, B. Kozlíková, M. Krone, T. Ritschel, T. Ropinski, “Intrinsic-Extrinsic Convolution and Pooling for Learning on 3D Protein Structures,” in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.

2016 – 2020

2020
  • N. Brich, C. Schulz, J. Peter, W. Klingert, M. Schenk, D. Weiskopf, M. Krone, “Visual Analysis of Multivariate Intensive Care Surveillance Data,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2020 (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award).
  • K. Schatz, F. Frieß, M. Schäfer, M. Krone, T. Ertl, “Analyzing Protein Similarity by Clustering Molecular Surface Maps,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2020.
  • G. Reina, H. Childs, K. Matković, K. Bühler, M. Waldner, D. Pugmire, B. Kozlíková, T. Ropinski, P. Ljung, T. Itoh, E. Gröller, M. Krone, “The moving target of visualization software for an increasingly complex world,” Computers & Graphics, vol. 87, pp. 12-29, 2020.
  • J. Scheer, A. Volkert, N. Brich, L. Weinert, N. Santhanam, M. Krone, T. Ganslandt, M. Boeker, T. Nagel, “Visualization Techniques of Time-Oriented Data for the Comparison of Single Patients With Multiple Patients or Cohorts: Scoping Review,” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(9):e38041, 2022.
  • K. Schatz, J. Schneider, C. Müller, M. Krone, G. Reina, T. Ertl, “Abstracted Visualization of Halo Topologies in Dark Matter Simulations,” in Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization V (Mathematics and Visualization), Springer, 2020.
2019
  • X. Martinez, M. Krone, N. Alharbi, A.S. Rose, R.S. Laramee, S. O'Donoghue, M. Baaden, M. Chavent, “Molecular Graphics: Bridging Structural Biologists and Computer Scientists,” Structure, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 1617-1623, 2019.
  • T. Rau, S. Zahn, M. Krone, G. Reina, T. Ertl, “Interactive CPU-based Ray Tracing of Solvent Excluded Surfaces,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, pp. 239-251, 2019.
  • N. Alharbi, M. Krone, M. Chavent, R. S. Laramee, “Hybrid Visualization of Protein-Lipid and Protein-Protein Interaction,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, pp. 213-223, 2019.
  • K. Schatz, M. Krone, T. Bauer, V. Ferrario, J. Pleiss, T. Ertl, “Molecular Sombreros: Abstract Visualization of Binding Sites within Proteins,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, pp. 225-237, 2019.
  • K. Schatz, M. Krone, J. Pleiss, T. Ertl, “Interactive visualization of biomolecules’ dynamic and complex properties,” The European Physical Journal Special Topics, vol. 227, no. 14, pp. 1725–1739, 2019.
  • P. Gralka, M. Becher, M. Braun, F. Frieß, C. Müller, T. Rau, K. Schatz, C. Schulz, M. Krone, G. Reina, T. Ertl, “MegaMol – a comprehensive prototyping framework for visualizations,” The European Physical Journal Special Topics, vol. 227, no. 14, pp. 1817–1829, 2019.
  • M. Schäfer, M. Krone, “A Massively Parallel CUDA Algorithm to Compute and Visualize the Solvent Excluded Surface for Dynamic Molecular Data,” in EG/EuroVis 2019 Workshop on Molecular Graphics and Visual Analysis of Molecular Data (MolVA), 2019, pp. 1-9.
  • X. Martinez, M. Krone, Marc Baaden, “QuickSES: A Library for Fast Computation of Solvent Excluded Surfaces,” in EG/EuroVis 2019 Workshop on Molecular Graphics and Visual Analysis of Molecular Data (MolVA), 2019, pp. 11–15.
  • A. Groß, M. Becher, G. Reina, T. Ertl, M. Krone, “A User Interaction Design for Object Manipulation via Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality,” in IEEE VR 2019 Workshop on Novel Input Devices and Interaction Techniques (NIDIT), 2019.
2018
  • F. Mwalongo, M. Krone, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Web-based Volume Rendering using Progressive Importance-based Data Transfer,” in International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), 2018.
  • N. Alharbi, M. Chavent, M. Krone, and R. S. Laramee, “VAPLI: Novel Visual Abstraction for Protein-Lipid Interactions,” in IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis) Short Papers, 2018.
  • C. Schulz, K. Schatz, M. Krone, M. Braun, T. Ertl, and D. Weiskopf, “Uncertainty Visualization for Secondary Structures of Proteins,” in 2018 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2018, pp. 96–105.
  • C. Müller, M. Krone, M. Huber, V. Biener, D. Herr, S. Koch, G. Reina, D. Weiskopf, and T. Ertl, “Interactive Molecular Graphics for Augmented Reality Using HoloLens,” Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, vol. 15, no. 2, 2018.
  • M. Krone, S. Grottel, G. Reina, C. Müller, and T. Ertl, “10 Years of MegaMol: The Pain and Gain of Creating Your Own Visualization Framework,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 109–114, 2018.
  • P. Gralka, S. Grottel, J. Staib, K. Schatz, G. Karch, M. Hirschler, M. Krone, G. Reina, S. Gumhold, and T. Ertl, “2016 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest Winner: Visual and Structural Analysis of Point-based Simulation Ensembles,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 106–117, May 2018.
  • C. P. Bradley, N. Emamy, T. Ertl, D. Göddeke, A. Hessenthaler, T. Klotz, A. Krämer, M. Krone, B. Maier, M. Mehl, T. Rau, and O. Röhrle, “Enabling Detailed, Biophysics-Based Skeletal Muscle Models on HPC Systems,” Front. Physiol., vol. 9, 2018.
  • M. Becher, M. Krone, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Feature-based Volumetric Terrain Generation and Decoration,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 1–1, 2018.
2017
  • K. Schatz, M. Krone, C. Müller, J. Schneider, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Visualization of Halo Topologies in Dark Matter Simulations,” in Proceedings of TopoInVis, 2017.
  • S. Reinhardt, M. Huber, O. Dumitrescu, M. Krone, B. Eberhardt, and D. Weiskopf, “Visual Debugging of SPH Simulations,” in 2017 21st International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), 2017, pp. 117–126.
  • T. Rau, M. Krone, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Challenges and Opportunities using Software-defined Visualization in MegaMol,” in 7th Workshop on Visual Analytics, Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization, 2017.
  • M. Krone, K. Schatz, N. Hieronymus, C. Müller, M. Becher, T. Barthelmes, A. Cooper, S. Currle, P. Gralka, M. Hlawatsch, L. Pietrzyk, T. Rau, G. Reina, R. Trefft, and T. Ertl, “From Visualization Research to Public Presentation - Design and Realization of a Scientific Exhibition,” in Proceedings of SIGRAD 2017, 2017, vol. 143, pp. 17–24.
  • M. Krone, F. Frieß, K. Scharnowski, G. Reina, S. Fademrecht, T. Kulschewski, J. Pleiss, and T. Ertl, “Molecular Surface Maps,” IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graphics, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 701–710, 2017.
  • M. Krone, G. Reina, S. Zahn, T. Tremel, C. Bahnmüller, and T. Ertl, “Implicit Sphere Shadow Maps,” in 2017 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2017, pp. 275–279.
  • B. Kozlíková, M. Krone, M. Falk, N. Lindow, M. Baaden, D. Baum, I. Viola, J. Parulek, and H.-C. Hege, “Visualization of Biomolecular Structures: State of the Art Revisited,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 178–204, 2017.
  • P. Hermosilla, M. Krone, V. Guallar, P.-P. Vázquez, À. Vinacua, and T. Ropinski, “Interactive GPU-based generation of solvent-excluded surfaces,” Vis Comput, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 869–881, Jun. 2017.
  • M. Becher, M. Krone, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Feature-based Volumetric Terrain Generation,” in Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, New York, NY, USA, 2017, pp. 10:1–10:9 (Best Paper Award).
  • N. Alharbi, M. Alharbi, X. Martinez, M. Krone, A. S. Rose, M. Baaden, R. S. Laramee, and M. Chavent, “Molecular Visualization of Computational Biology Data: A Survey of Surveys,” in EuroVis 2017 - Short Papers, 2017.
2016
  • K. Schatz, C. Müller, M. Krone, J. Schneider, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Interactive visual exploration of a trillion particles,” in 6th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), 2016, pp. 56–64.
  • F. Mwalongo, M. Krone, M. Becher, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “GPU-based remote visualization of dynamic molecular data on the web,” Graphical Models, 2016.
  • F. Mwalongo, M. Krone, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “State-of-the-Art Report in Web-based Visualization,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 553–575, 2016.
  • C. Müller, M. Krone, K. Scharnowski, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “An Evaluation of the Utility of Large High-Resolution Displays for Comparative Scientific Visualisation,” IJSI, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 355–370, 2016.
  • M. Krone, B. Kozlíkova, N. Lindow, M. Baaden, D. Baum, J. Parulek, H.-C. Hege, and I. Viola, “Visual Analysis of Biomolecular Cavities: State of the Art,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 527–551, 2016.
  • S. Grottel, G. Reina, M. Krone, C. Müller, and T. Ertl, “MegaMol - for Fun and Profit,” in Workshop on Visualization in Practice, 2016 (Best Workshop Paper Award).
  • M. Falk, S. Grottel, M. Krone, and G. Reina, Interactive GPU-based Visualization of Large Dynamic Particle Data. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2016.

2011 – 2015

2015
  • K. Scharnowski, M. Krone, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “On the Reproducibility of our Biomolecular Visualization,” in EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization (EuroRV3), 2015.
  • B. Rau, F. Friess, M. Krone, C. Müller, and T. Ertl, “Enhancing visualization of molecular simulations using sonification,” in IEEE International Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Molecular Science (VARMS@IEEEVR), 2015, pp. 25–30.
  • F. Mwalongo, M. Krone, M. Becher, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Remote Visualization of Dynamic Molecular Data Using WebGL,” in International Conference on 3D Web Technology, 2015, pp. 115–122.
  • C. Müller, M. Krone, K. Scharnowski, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “On the Utility of Large High-Resolution Displays for Comparative Scientific Visualisation,” in International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI), 2015, vol. 8, pp. 131–136.
  • K. Lawonn, M. Krone, T. Ertl, and B. Preim, “On the Reproducibility of Line Integral Convolution for Real-Time Illustration of Molecular Surface Shape and Salient Regions,” in EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization (EuroRV3), 2015.
  • M. Krone, C. Müller, T. Ertl, D. Kauker, A. C. Silva, D. Salsa, M. Gräber, and M. Kallert, “Remote Rendering and User Interaction on Mobile Devices for Scientific Visualization,” in International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI), 2015, vol. 8.
  • M. Krone, “Interactive Visual Analysis of Biomolecular Simulations,” Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 2015.
  • B. Kozlíková, M. Krone, N. Lindow, M. Falk, M. Baaden, D. Baum, I. Viola, J. Parulek, and H.-C. Hege, “Visualization of Biomolecular Structures: State of the Art,” in Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) - STARs, 2015, pp. 61–81.
  • S. Grottel, M. Krone, C. Müller, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “MegaMol - A Prototyping Framework for Particle-based Visualization,” IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graphics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 201–214, 2015.
2014
  • K. Scharnowski, M. Krone, G. Reina, T. Kulschewski, J. Pleiss, and T. Ertl, “Comparative Visualization of Molecular Surfaces Using Deformable Models,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 191–200, 2014.
  • F. Mwalongo, M. Krone, G. Karch, M. Becher, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Visualization of Molecular Structures using State-of-the-Art Techniques in WebGL,” in International Conference on 3D Web Technology, 2014, vol. 19, pp. 133–141.
  • K. Lawonn, M. Krone, T. Ertl, and B. Preim, “Line Integral Convolution for Real-Time Illustration of Molecular Surface Shape and Salient Regions,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 181–190, 2014.
  • M. Krone, D. Kauker, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Visual Analysis of Dynamic Protein Cavities and Binding Sites,” in IEEE PacificVis - Visualization Notes, 2014, vol. 1, pp. 301–305.
  • M. Krone, M. Huber, K. Scharnowski, M. Hirschler, D. Kauker, G. Reina, U. Nieken, D. Weiskopf, and T. Ertl, “Evaluation of Visualizations for Interface Analysis of SPH,” in EuroVis - Short Papers, 2014, vol. 3, pp. 109–113.
  • J. Heinrich, M. Krone, S. I. O’Donoghue, and D. Weiskopf, “Visualising Intrinsic Disorder and Conformational Variation in Protein Ensembles,” Faraday Discuss., vol. 169, pp. 179–193, 2014.
  • T. Ertl, M. Krone, S. Kesselheim, K. Scharnowski, G. Reina, and C. Holm, “Visual Analysis for Space-Time Aggregation of Biomolecular Simulations,” Faraday Discuss., vol. 169, pp. 167–178, 2014.
2013
  • K. Scharnowski, M. Krone, F. Sadlo, P. Beck, J. Roth, H.-R. Trebin, and T. Ertl, “2012 IEEE Visualization Contest Winner: Visualizing Polarization Domains in Barium Titanate,” IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl., vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 9–17, 2013.
  • M. Krone, G. Reina, C. Schulz, T. Kulschewski, J. Pleiss, and T. Ertl, “Interactive Extraction and Tracking of Biomolecular Surface Features,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 331–340, 2013.
  • D. Kauker, M. Krone, A. Panagiotidis, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Rendering Molecular Surfaces using Order-Independent Transparency,” in Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2013, vol. 13, pp. 33–40.
  • D. Kauker, M. Krone, A. Panagiotidis, G. Reina, and T. Ertl, “Evaluation of per-pixel linked lists for distributed rendering and comparative analysis,” CVS, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 111–121, 2013.
  • M. Falk, M. Krone, and T. Ertl, “Atomistic Visualization of Mesoscopic Whole-Cell Simulations Using Ray-Casted Instancing,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 195–206, 2013.
2012
  • M. Krone, J. E. Stone, T. Ertl, and K. Schulten, “Fast Visualization of Gaussian Density Surfaces for Molecular Dynamics and Particle System Trajectories,” in EuroVis - Short Papers, 2012, vol. 1, pp. 67–71.
  • S. Grottel, M. Krone, K. Scharnowski, and T. Ertl, “Object-Space Ambient Occlusion for Molecular Dynamics,” in IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, 2012, pp. 209–216.
  • M. Falk, M. Krone, and T. Ertl, “Atomistic Visualization of Mesoscopic Whole-Cell Simulations,” in EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2012, pp. 123–130 (Best Paper Award).
2011
  • B. Thomaß, J. Walter, M. Krone, H. Hasse, and T. Ertl, “Interactive Exploration of Polymer-Solvent Interactions,” in Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, 2011, vol. 16, pp. 301–308.
  • M. Krone, S. Grottel, and T. Ertl, “Parallel Contour-Buildup Algorithm for the Molecular Surface,” in IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization, 2011, pp. 17–22.
  • M. Krone, M. Falk, S. Rehm, J. Pleiss, and T. Ertl, “Interactive Exploration of Protein Cavities,” Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 673–682, 2011.
  • M. Chavent, B. Lévy, M. Krone, K. Bidmon, J.-P. Nominé, T. Ertl, and M. Baaden, “GPU-powered Tools Boost Molecular Visualization,” Brief. Bioinform., vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 689–701, 2011.

2008 – 2010

2010
  • M. Krone, C. Dachsbacher, and T. Ertl, “Parallel Computation and Interactive Visualization of Time-varying Solvent Excluded Surfaces,” in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2010, vol. 1, pp. 402–405.
2009
  • M. Krone, K. Bidmon, and T. Ertl, “Interactive Visualization of Molecular Surface Dynamics,” IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graphics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1391–1398, 2009 (Best Paper Honorable Mention).
2008
  • M. Krone, K. Bidmon, and T. Ertl, “GPU-based Visualisation of Protein Secondary Structure,” in Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 2008, vol. 8, pp. 115–122.

Posters & Artworks

  • C. Müller, K. Schatz, F. Frieß, M. Krone, "Molecular Planets," Artwork, IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), 2022. Website
  • M. Bok, M. Schäfer, N. Brich, K. Schreiner, V. Fäßler, M. Keckeisen, O. Kohlbacher, M. Krone, "Comparative Visual Analysis of Molecular Dynamics," Poster, EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2022.
  • M. Krone, A. Dräger, E. Cobanoglu, M. O. Harke, M. Hoene, C. Weigert, R. Lehmann,"A Web-based Visual Analytics Application for Biological Networks," Poster, EG EuroVis, 2020.
  • M. Schäfer, A. Cremer, M. Aktürk, M. Krone, "Towards an Enhanced Interactive Protein Sequence Diagram," Poster, EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, 2020. (Best Poster Award)
  • K. Schatz, M. Krone, V. Ferrario, J. Pleiss, T. Ertl, "Visual Analysis of Enzyme-Substrate Interactions," Abstract/Poster, BioVis@ISMB 2018.

 

Molecular Planets

Awards, Honors and Grants

  • IEEE VIS 2023: Winner of the Bio+MedVis Challenge @ IEEE VIS 2023 (N. Brich, T. Harbig, M. Witte Paz, S. Hackl, C. Jachmann, M. Schäfer, M. Krone, K. Nieselt: “ProtEGOnist – Exploration of protein-protein interactions using ego-graph networks”)
  • Sino-German Center Mobility Programme 2020: Development of novel complementary mass spectrometry-driven strategies to identify and study the positive effects of myometabokines on diabetes prevention by a multi-omics approach (project number: M-0257; PIs: Xu Guowang,  Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Rainer Lehmann, University Hospital Tübingen)
  • Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) 2020: Honorable Mention for “Visual Analysis of Multivariate Intensive Care Surveillance Data” (Best Paper Award finalist) & Best Poster Award for “Towards an Enhanced Interactive Protein Sequence Diagram”
  • DFG Project IVM: Illustrative Visualization of Uncertainty in Dynamic Molecular Structures (Research Grant, funding period: 2021 - 2022, DFG project number 437702916)
  • NVIDIA GPU Grant for Accelerated Data Science (August 2019)
  • DFG-GACR Project PROLINT: Visual Analysis of Protein Ligand Interactions (Research Grant, funding period: 2018 - 2021, DFG project number 391088465)
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2017: Best Paper Award for “Feature-based Volumetric Terrain Generation” (3rd place)
  • IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016 Honorable Mention
  • Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Collaborative Research Center 716 2016 (best Ph.D. thesis in 2014/2015)
  • IEEE VIS 2016: Winner of the IEEE SciVis Contest 2016 (S. Grottel, P. Gralka, J. Staib, K. Schatz, G. K. Karch, M. Hirschler, M. Krone, G. Reina, S. Gumhold, T. Ertl: “Visual and Structural Analysis of Point-based Simulation Ensembles”)
  • IEEE VIS 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice: Best Paper Award for “MegaMol for Fun and Profit” (S. Grottel, G. Reina, M. Krone, C. Müller, T. Ertl)
  • IEEE VisWeek 2012: Winner of the IEEE SciVis Contest (K. Scharnowski, M. Krone, P. Beck, F. Sadlo: “Visualization of Polarization Domains in Barium Titanate”)
  • Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) 2012: Best Paper Award for “Atomistic Visualization of Mesoscopic Whole-Cell Simulations”
  • IEEE VisWeek 2009: Honorable Mention for “Interactive Visualization of Molecular Surface Dynamics” (Best Paper Award finalist)

Services / Memberships (Selection)

  • Member IEEE
  • Member Eurographics (EG)
  • IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE VIS) 2022 & 2023: Application Spotlight Chair
  • EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2022 & 2023: Poster Chair
  • ACM ETRA 2023: Finance Chair
  • General Chair BioVis COSI @ ISMB 2021 - 2023
  • General Chair 10th Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM 2020)
  • Co-Organizer of NII Shonan Meeting Seminar No.145 "The Moving Target of Visualization Software for an Ever More Complex World" (together with Prof. Hank Childs, University of Oregon, USA, Prof. Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University, Japan, and Dr. Guido Reina, University of Stuttgart)
  • Organizing comittee (Abstract Chair) of the Community of Special Interest (COSI) event “BioVis – Biological Data Visualizations” at ISMB (Chicago, IL, Jun. 2018)
  • Co-Organizer of the “Workshop on Molecular Graphics and Visual Analysis of Molecular Data” at the 20th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis, Brno, Czech Republic, Jun. 2018)
  • Co-Organizer of the special session “From Virtual Reality to Immersive Analytics in Bioinformatics” at Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX (Burlingame, CA, Feb. 2018)
  • Co-Organizer of the CECAM workshop “Particle-based Simulations for Hard and Soft Matter” (Oct. 2016)
     
  • Committee member and opponent of the Ph.D. defense of Mr. Ivan Kolesár (23.06.2017, University of Bergen, Norway; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Helwig Hauser)
     
  • Member of International Program Committees (excerpt):
    • IEEE VIS
    • EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis)
    • IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium
    • International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics
    • Symposium on Biological Data Visualization
  • since 2009: Reviewer for many scientific conferences and journals in the fields of visualization, computer graphics, and bioinformatics (e.g., IEEE Trans. Vis. Comp. Graphics, Comput. Graph. Forum, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, J. Mol. Graph. Model., J. Comput. Chem., IEEE Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinf., Comp. Biol. Chem.)