Prof. Dr. Volker Coors

Vice-President Research and Digitization

Prof. Dr. Volker Coors
Teaching areas:

GeoInformatics

E-Mail: volker.coors@hft-stuttgart.de Phone: +49 711 8926 2663 Room:
1/121
Office hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays 1 - 2 PM
via Web-Conference
https://hft-stuttgart-de.zoom.us/j/61004982620
Competence centre:
  • Geodesy and geoinformatics

Vita

  • since 2023

    Vice-President Research and Digitization

  • 2019 - 2023

    Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Research at HFT Stuttgart

  • 2017 - 2023

    Spokesman Research Priority “Smart Technologies, Processes and Methods" at HFT Stuttgart

  • since 2016

    Director Steinbeis Center for Technology Transfer at HFT Stuttgart

  • 2006-2017

    Dean of Studies of Bachelor Information Logistics

  • since 2002

    Professor for Computer Science and Geo-Informatics at HFT Stuttgart Stuttgart

  • 2003

    Graduation (Dr.-Ing.) at the Faculty for Informatics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Final result: “Sehr gut” (A)

  • 1997 - 2002

    Scientific assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt. Since 2001 head of project areas 3D-GIS and Location based Services. Since 2002 deputy head of the according department.

  • 1997

    Diploma degree with distinction in Computer Science at the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany. Subsidiary subject: civil engineering

  • 2001

    DAAD scholarships for research project at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Publications

  • 1997 - today

    a list of publications is available at research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Volker-Coors

  • Selected scientific publications are available at OrcId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0413-8977

Awards

  • 2012

    Best Paper Award from Fraunhofer IGD "Intergrating Quality Management in to a 3D Geospatial Server"

  • 2007

    Digital Earth Award for the VEPs (Virtual Environmental Planning System) project

Competitions

  • 2000

    Prize winner ideas competition, virtual and augmented reality of the BMBF for the idea sketch GEIST

Misc.

Volker Coors studied computer science at The TU Darmstadt and received his doctorate in computer graphics. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Computer Science and Geo-Informatics at HFT Stuttgart. His research focuses on Urban Digital Twins, 3D geospatial data infrastructures and the visualization of spatial data. From 2006-2017 he was Dean of Studies of the Information Logistics course, from 2019 to 2023 scientific director of the Institute for Applied Research. Since March 2023, he has been Vice-President Research and Digitalization at HFT Stuttgart.
As a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Prof. Coors contributes his research results to standardisation, for example in the CityGML Standard Working Group (SWG). He is a founding member of the joint commission "3D City Modelling" of the German Society for Cartography e.V. and the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation e.V. and Vice-president of the Urban Data Management Society.